If anyone has a conscience,
it’s generally a guilty one.
Max Frisch
A guilty conscience
needs to confess.
A work of art is a confession.
Albert Camus
author, and journalist)
I don’t believe
in collective guilt,
but I do believe
in collective responsibility.
Audrey Hepburn
dancer and humanitarian)
Rape is the only crime
in which the victim
becomes the accused.
Freda Adler
When one person
makes an accusation,
check to be sure
he himself is not
the guilty one.
Sometimes it is those
whose case is weak
who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony
To have the truth
in your possession
you can be found guilty,
sentenced to death.
Peter Tosh
Guilt is anger
directed at ourselves
– at what we did
or did not do.
Resentment is anger
directed at others
– at what they did
or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
If you commit a crime,
you’re guilty.
Rush Limbaugh
and political commentator)
To admit guilt
for non-existent crimes
is unacceptable to me.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
philanthropist and former oligarch,
now resident in Switzerland)
The difference between
shame and guilt
is the difference between
‘I am bad’ and
‘I did something bad’.
Brené Brown