"To be judged by the state as an innocent, is to be guilty. It is to sanction, through passivity and obedience, the array of crimes carried out by the state."

"They who feel guilty are afraid, and they who are afraid somehow feel guilty. To the onlooker, too, the fearful seem guilty."

"Where guilt is, rage and courage both abound."

"guilt itself, as a motivating factor, is rooted in a way of thinking which does not promote change...in order to change you have to be willing to expose yourself-at least to yourself-and observe and examine and understand. This takes time, patience, and a respect for process. Guilt prompts a longing to purge all impure impulses quickly, get it over and done with once and for all...how does any sane person react after a while to fear, guilt? Is this a way to build a movement?...Only recognition of a common goal, the possibilities and I want to say-the joys of solidarity will inspire women who don't feel guilty to join another struggle as their own."

"It is said to have happened that a man who by his misdeeds became liable to punishment under the law returned to society a reformed man after having served his sentence. Then he went to a foreign country where he was unknown and where he became known for his upright conduct. All was forgotten; then came a fugitive who recognized the esteemed man as his peer back in those wretched days. To meet was an appalling recollection; to shudder at it in passing was a deadly anxiety. Even silent, it shouted with a loud voice, until it became vocal in that dastardly fugitive’s voice. Then despair suddenly seized the man who seemed redeemed, and it seized him just because repentance was forgotten, because this civically reformed man was still not surrendered to God in such a way that in the humility of repentance he remembered his former condition. In the temporal and sensuous and civic sense, repentance is still also something that comes and goes over the years, but in the eternal sense it is a quiet daily concern."

"Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures."

"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness."

"I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees."

"These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear."

"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."

"Friends and comrades! On that side [south] are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here, Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south."

"Nothing is more wretched than a guilty conscience."

"These instances are selected by the learned author as typical of the working of our national nostrum, 'Not Proven', as applied to nice and perplexing cases: a verdict which has been construed by the profane to mean 'Not Guilty, but don't do it again'."

"And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons."

"O, she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again."

"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal."

"I don't like the word sin. It implies that I am being judged and found guilty. I can understand that. Over the centuries, many erroneous views and interpretations have accumulated around words such as sin, due to ignorance, misunderstanding, or a desire to control...Don't get stuck on the level of words."

"A word is no more than a means to an end. Its an abstraction. Not unlike a signpost, it points beyond itself. The word honey isn't honey... You can talk or think about God continuously for the rest of your life, but does that mean you know or have even glimpsed the reality to which the word points? ... if a word doesn't work for you anymore, then drop it and replace it with one that does work. If you don't like the word sin, then call it unconsciousness or insanity. That may get you closer to the truth, the reality behind the word, than a long-misused word like sin, and leaves little room for guilt."

"A land of levity is a land of guilt."

"No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it."

"He who flies proves himself guilty."

"In ipsa dubitatione facinus inest, etiamsi ad id non pervenerint."

"Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty."

"What we call real estate—the solid ground to build a house on—is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests."

"How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great."

"The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself."

"Exemplo quodcumque malo committitur, ipsi Displicet auctori. Prima est hæc ultio, quod se Judice nemo nocens absolvitur."

"Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda."

"Facinus quos inquinat æquat."

"Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est."

"Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu."

"Dum ne ob male facta peream, parvi æstimo."

"Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius."

"How glowing guilt exalts the keen delight!"

"Haste, holy Friar, Haste, ere the sinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smooth his path from earth to heaven!"

"Haud est nocens, quicumque non sponte est nocens."

"Multa trepidus solet Detegere vultus."

"Fatetur facinus is qui judicium fugit."

"Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds."

"Fear is a great enemy of man. It is the enemy of his progress. It disturbs his peace and harmony. It sucks or saps his vitality and energy. It drains the nervous system of its reserve of energy. It produces weakness."

"It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man."

"Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith."

"There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him."

"When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all."

"He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong."

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life."

"Full twenty times was Peter feared, For once that Peter was respected."

"Pedibus timor addidit alas."

"Degeneres animos timor arguit."