The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.
Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power.
I am not going to answer to this so-called court, out of respect for the truth and the will of the Iraqi people. I've said what I've said, and I'm not guilty.
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
I've always have loved reality programmes. 'Big Brother,' 'I'm A Celebrity,' they're my guilty pleasure.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!
Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
When your work is nonfiction about low-income communities, pretty much anything that's not nonfiction about low-income communities feels like a guilty pleasure.
The fame and reputation part came later, and never was much of a motivator, although it did enable me to work without feeling guilty about neglecting my studies.
I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.
Conscience is the light by which we interpret the will of God in our own lives.
It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.
Their faces were contorted with a horror only known to those who have silenced their consciences.
