#guilty

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me. ↗

— John Perkins

#felt #guilty #i #me #money

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art. ↗

— LaToya Jackson

#charges #clearing #concentrate #counts #end

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets. ↗

— P. D. James

#credible #especially #guilty #motives #mysteries

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#escape #even #forms #guilty #law

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#ashamed #blushes #guilty #innocence #nothing

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#escape #ever #every #every man #fire

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? ↗

— Franz Schubert

#different #fantasy #flame #guilty #him

I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#asking #giving #guilty #i #i am

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#even #even now #extraordinary #guilty #i