Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie. Lawrence Durrell
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. Henry Fielding
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. Sir William Blackstone
In this rat-race everybody’s guilty till proved innocent! Bette Davis
In law, a man is guilty when he violates the rights of another. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Immanuel Kant
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. R D Laing
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit. V S Pritchett
My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know. Joan Rivers
My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. Anna Sewell