Stephan James Quotes

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

I might as well have pulled the trigger myself.

I don't even know what 'successful' means. We're all failures. Look at the world. We're all complicit.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

Did I kill anyone?

No man ought to be condemned for exhorting people to pursue justice in a certain line, though he may foresee that in the pursuit of that justice the opposition given to those who are proceeding in a just course may produce collision, and that collision lead to the commission of crime; but our duty, as I conceive, is to seek for the injustice, and there to impute the crime… It is to that injustice, and not to those who pursue a just course for the attainment of a right end, that the guilt is to be ascribed.

If I do bad, shoot me.

Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Sometimes there has to be a goat on some level, and I'm totally fine with that being me.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable.

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.

Blame is for God and small children.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'