"Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children."
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"Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming"
"In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity."
"Nobody becomes guilty by fate."
"The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman."
"I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy."
"And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't."
"Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty."
"There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure."
"I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty."
"there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone."
"In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting."
"I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused."
"Tell Allen I plead guilty to vampirism and other crimes against life. But I love him and nothing else cancels love."
"I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't."
"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
"It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time."
"Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent."
"Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed."
"It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty."