Guilt quotes

“Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.”
George Sewell

“We can no long wear the uniform of the soldier. We forfeited that right and that includes me. I disobeyed an executive order, I violated my duty as a commanding officer. And eight men paid a catastrophic price. It's a mistake not easy to live with. So here I am just like you, a convicted criminal. Only difference between you and me is, I know...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert Redford - Lt. Gen. Eugene Irwin

“- Scotty: I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system, which is easy, by the way, I could do it with a life form. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.
- James T. Kirk: Wait, I know that dog. What happened to it?
- Scotty: I'll tell you when it reappears. Ahem. I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Simon Pegg - Scotty
Chris Pine - James T. Kirk

“Anyone's guilty who lets these things happens and pretends like it isn't. No, he was guilty all right. Just as guilty as the fanatics who pulled the trigger. Maybe we all are.”

Willem Dafoe - Ward

“- Brown: What am I guilty of?
- Ray: Being a cunt, Brown. Being a cunt.”
Max Bennett - Brown
Charlie Hunnam - Ray

“Fact is, all lies, all evil deeds, they stink. You can cover them up for a while, but they don't go away.”
Clive Owen - Dalton Russell

“Sometimes crowds make me feel guilty for not having fun like everyone else. And then I feel guilty for feeling guilty.”
Anna Paquin - Sookie Stackhouse

“People give people money for all sorts of reasons. Guilt and love are two of the biggest.”
Julia Garner - Anna Delvey

“Getting arrested, that makes people look guilty, even the innocent ones and innocent people get arrested every day.”
Bob Odenkirk - Jimmy McGill

“Guilt is such a useless emotion.”
Tom Ellis - Lucifer Morningstar

“All I was guilty of, was showing these men mercy when no one else would.”
Sarah Paulson - Nurse Mildred Ratched

“- Pete Menzies: Convictions. Sure. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: Nobody.
- Pete Menzies: Come on, Hank. How many did you frame?
- Quinlan: I told you. Nobody. Nobody that wasn't guilty. Guilty. Guilty.”
Joseph Calleia - Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
Orson Welles - Police Captain Hank Quinlan

“Where I come from, when the government says someone's guilty, that's how you know they're innocent.”
Nina Arianda - Nadya Light

“- Juror #6: You think he's not guilty, huh?
- Juror #8: I don't know. It's possible.”

Edward Binns - Juror 6
Henry Fonda - Juror 8

“- Juror #2: It's hard to put into words. I just think he's guilty. I thought it was obvious from the word, 'Go'. Nobody proved otherwise.
- Juror #8: Nobody has to prove otherwise. The burden of proof is on the prosecution. The defendant doesn't even have to open his mouth. That's in the Constitution.”
John Fiedler - Juror 2
Henry Fonda - Juror 8

“- Helen Parr: Who did I put in jail?
- Evelyn Deavor: Pizza delivery guy. Seemed the right height, build. He gave you a pretty good fight. I should say I gave you a pretty good fight through him.
- Helen Parr: But it doesn't bother you that an innocent man is in jail?
- Evelyn Deavor: Eh, he was surly. And the pizza was cold.”
Holly Hunter - Helen Parr
Catherine Keener - Evelyn Deavor

“- George Grisby: Beautiful, isn't it.
- Michael O'Hara: The beach, you mean, or the tourists?
- George Grisby: Everything!
- Michael O'Hara: There's a fair face to the land; but, you can't hide the hunger and guilt. It's a bright, guilty world.”
Glenn Anders - George Grisby
Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara

“In a democracy, we do not shoot unarmed suspects on sight for a murder in which their participation is still unproven.”
Bradford Dillman - Dr. Lewis Dixon

“For the love of Jesus Christ! If you wish to destroy me, then destroy me. Accuse me of exposing political chicanery and the evils of the state, and I will plead guilty! But who would not hold back some scraps to prove to himself, in his dotage, that he was once loved?”
Oliver Reed - Urbain Grandier

“We need guilt, Doctor. And shame. But not yours.”

Dakota Johnson - Susie

“It's a world where you think actions have no consequence, where guilt is cloaked by anonymity, where there are no fingerprints. An invisible universe filled with strangers, interconnected online and disconnected in life.”

Halle Berry - Ro

“You stay the fuck away from me Ryan okay! You're the whole reason we're in this friggen mess. Get out! And Get me out!”

Cassidy Gifford - Cassidy Spilker

“I should have let him be punished then, along with the other filth. But he was my only son. His mother died giving birth to him. He and I are all each other have. I was afraid for him. Afraid for me. See, I was a public figure. So I did things. I fixed it.”

Pat Hingle - Chief Jannings

“- Mike Kattan: How does it feel, Hank? Knowing that every client you represent is guilty?
- Hank Palmer: It's fine. Innocent people can't afford me.”
David Krumholtz - Mike Kattan
Robert Downey Jr. - Hank Palmer

“- Eddie Mannix: Bless me, father, for I have sinned.
- Priest: How long since your last confession, son?
- Eddie Mannix: 27 hours.
- Priest: It's really too often. You're not that bad.”
Josh Brolin - Eddie Mannix
Robert Pike Daniel - Catholic Clergyman