Personal Guilt Quotes

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty.

I've got some repenting to do.

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

Maybe I'm just as bad as my critics who hound me.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it.

I’m angry with what’s happening to our country and angry with myself that I can’t do more.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

I knew I was born at the North but hoped nobody would find it out. I looked upon the misfortune as something so shrouded by time and distance that maybe nobody remembered it.

If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'don't be hard on yourself,' I feel like I have to redeem myself to my fans, my family and the whole of British sport.

I think in the end officials in each country's judicial system will do what they believe is right because if they do something bad to somebody it's on their conscience for the rest of their lives.

I'm a terrible husband.

Every man is his own law court and punishes himself enough.

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

These people did their duty; they acted on my orders, so they are not guilty of anything. I accept their guilt myself. Try me.