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  • Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

    Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press
  • If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.

    Art   Home   Speak  
  • Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

  • I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad - not to say I'm not guilty of that at times. ... I try and make humor out of the really important issues of the day, like Hot Pockets and elevators and not wanting to get out of bed.

    "Pasty-faced and proud of it - Comedian Jim Gaffigan brings his 'Beyond the Pale Tour' to Merrill Auditorium". "Portland Press Herald" Newspaper, February 15, 2007.
  • I have been accused of something I'm not guilty of. How do you prove a negative? No matter what we discuss here today, I'm never going to have my name restored. But I've got to try and set the record straight.

    Names   Trying   Negative  
  • When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

    Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.64
  • A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

    Funny   Life   Failure  
    "Le Siecle de Louis XIV (The Age of Louis XIV)". Book by Voltaire (Chapter VI), 1751.
  • Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.

    Devil   Helping   Guilty  
  • I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

    Hurt   Blue   Play  
    Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.

  • I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

  • To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

    William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.73
  • Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.

    "A Piece of the Action" by David Nicholson, www.washingtonpost.com. November 3, 1996.
  • I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

    Lying   Selfish   People  
    "Chris Christie's Convention Speech Attacking Hillary Clinton". time.com. July 22, 2016.
  • The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

    Art   Mean   Trials  
  • The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

    Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Misérables: Fantine”, p.14, Library of Alexandria
  • I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

    Mean   Alcohol   Drug  
    "Fictional character: Nino Brown". "New Jack City", 1991.
  • To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.

    Jesus   Mean   Son  
    Jerry Bridges (2017). “Transforming Grace”, p.39, NavPress
  • Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

    Torches   Guilty   Dear  
    Leonard Cohen (2003). “The Favorite Game: A Novel”, Vintage Books
  • To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to escape from individual responsibility, or, in the words of an ardent young Nazi, to be free from freedom. It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

    "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1951.
  • Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.

    Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.87, Vintage
  • When the whole is at stake, there is no crime except that of rejecting the whole, or not defending it. ... Those who identify themselves with the whole, who are installed as the leaders and defenders of the whole can make mistakes, but they cannot do wrong - they are not guilty. They may become guilty again when this identification no longer holds, when they are gone.

    Mistake   Leader   Gone  
    "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 82-83), 1964.
  • Casey Anthony was found not guilty. This means that President Obama’s economic team is only the second-most clueless group in America.

    Team   Clueless   Mean  
  • He who helps the guilty, shares the crime.

    Helping   Guilty   Crime  
    "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 139,
  • When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty. And it doesn't matter if it's a murder case, it doesn't matter what case it is, when they're found not guilty, they're not guilty.

    Matter   Murder   Guilty  
    "R. Kelly Talks Sexual Abuse as a Child, Aaliyah Relationship & Allegations With GQ". Interview with Adelle Platon, www.billboard.com. January 20, 2016.
  • Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?

    "Chris Christie: 'It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now'". Chris Christie's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.
  • The good thing about forbidding the death penalty is that society won't be able to kill people who are not guilty, but at the same time there are some people that are just such a mental mess that, you know, they will never get out of their obsessions and they can keep them forever.

    People   Forever   Able  
    Source: www.freepatentsonline.com
  • On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

    Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”
  • Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

    Thinking   Sin   Guilty  
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