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A guilty conscience is the mother of invention. -- Carolyn Wells
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. -- Albert Camus
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if we're not doing it intentionally to be evil. Here we are sitting in luxury hotels, living it up on the the backs of others in the third world. We all have a guilty conscience, but we do very little about it. -- Michael Haneke
How tedious is a guilty conscience! -- John Webster
A guilty conscience never feels secure. -- Publilius Syrus
Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience. -- Buchi Emecheta
I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience. -- Albert Einstein
Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience? -- John Tillotson
I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience. -- Charles Spurgeon
It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age. -- Saint-John Perse
Charity has always been a expression of the guilty consciences of a ruling class. -- Doris Lessing
For the longest time, marriage has had a guilty conscience about itself. Should we believe it?--Yes, we should believe it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart! -- Edgar Allan Poe
I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience -- Steven Spielberg
So what if I'm ninety-three? So what if I'm ancient and cranky and my body's a wreck? If they're willing to accept me and my guilty conscience, why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus? -- Sara Gruen
There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone. -- Thomas Brooks
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they. -- Isaac Watts
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation. -- Eric Hoffer
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness. -- Seneca the Younger
The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt. -- Eric Hoffer
This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent. -- Deb Caletti
Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good. -- Arcangela Tarabotti
A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground. -- L. Quick
A guilty conscience has nowhere to hide -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
A guilty conscience means at least you have one. -- Jakob Dylan
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one. -- Max Frisch
Guilty conscience is the number one liar and the producer of suspicion. -- ABC
There is a guilty conscience behind every brazen word and act and behind every manifestation of self-righteousness. -- Eric Hoffer
Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness. -- Shannon L. Alder

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