"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving." - Erma Bombeck, quoted in Time

"Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie." - LAWRENCE DURRELL, Justine

"True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself, to actualize oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is." - R.D. LAING, Self and Others

"Without guilt
What is a man? An animal, isn't he?
A wolf forgiven at his meat,
A beetle innocent in his copulation."
- ARCHIBALD MACLEISH

"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him." - CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU, Mirame