Guilt
The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who has broken a moral or political law; crime; criminality; offense against right.
Exposure to any legal penalty or forfeiture.
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Guilt Quotations
The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Ayn Rand
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
John Steinbeck
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams
Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.
Erma Bombeck
Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
Guilt Translations
guilt in Danish is skyld
guilt in Dutch is schuld
guilt in German is Schuld
guilt in Italian is colpa
guilt in Latin is crimen
guilt in Norwegian is skyld
guilt in Portuguese is culpa
guilt in Spanish is culpa
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