Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.


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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
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Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do
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Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS He absolutely is not guilty and did not strike that woman.
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If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
ELIZABETH KALES
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thin...
IMMANUEL KANT
One man's Voltaire is another man's Screech.
DENNIS MILLER
Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies."
(Voltaire on his deathbed in respo...
VOLTAIRE
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

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GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
PLATO
because he is not guilty, and he will be found not guilty at trial.
DAVID HOWARD
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every...
LADY GREGORY
No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so...
TOBA BETA
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
Every man loves what he is good at.
THOMAS SHADWELL
Every man loves what he is good at
THOMAS SHADWELL
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
C.S. LEWIS
Our last words to you, which are the words I began with: William Jefferson Clinton is not guilty of ...
CHARLES RUFF
My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR
No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time.
But anytime your heart is feel...
TOBA BETA
[He was] not a Soviet apologist. [He] did not believe in anything at all. He is the type of modern m...
JOHN P. VUKASIN JR.
I'm asking you to find him guilty, but find him guilty for what he did.
DION CUSTIS
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
LIVY
Because he did the high school, he has a really good idea of what we can do and not do.
LAURIE COOPER
Common sense is not so common. [Fr., Le sens commun n'est pas si common.] - Voltaire (Franco...
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The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted.
UNKNOWN
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will. [Lat., Haud est nocens, quicumque non spo...
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He who is guilty believes all men speak ill of him
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After all the process, if he is guilty he will be fired.
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Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
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This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected l...
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
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We will appeal. He is not guilty, he is innocent.
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When it was over he (Freeman) thanked me for doing a good job. I did the best I could, but obviously...
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God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent; has he not said, and ...
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If anyone came here today to hear remorse, they won't. Remorse is for a guilty man, and I'm not guil...
JAMES DEMPSEY
No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did.
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A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man b...
CHUANG TZU
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man b...
BUDDHA
One does not arrest Voltaire.
CHARLES DE GAULLE
Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.
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No mere man can do, what the Son of Man, the Saviour, did for all mankind.
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If (Fhimah) was not aware of that objective then he cannot be guilty of conspiracy, he cannot be gui...
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Christ is not God, not the saviour of the world, but a mere man, a sinful man and an abominable idol...
MATTHEW HAMMOND
This is the conclusion of a very unfortunate situation for a young man that we worked very hard with...
MIKE ALDEN
If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais...
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Their whole reaction is that he is guilty. I thought the law was 'innocent until proven guilty.' I k...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD
There is just as much evil in all of us as there is good. We're all continuously guilty, even if...
MICHAEL HANEKE
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CLAUDIO SANCHEZ
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An Innocent Man Is Never Frightened By the Truth; But A Guilty Man Will Try To Hide It As Long As He...
PATTY RASE HOPSON
He's not guilty and he's going to fight this all the way. He's not guilty.
LOU FREEMAN
My client keeps on saying he is not guilty.
DAVID KOCK
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote...
S. G. TALLENTYRE
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and...
VOLTAIRE (FRANCOIS MARIE AROUET VOLTAIRE)
Robert Blake has a stigma about him, although he was found not guilty. It's like O.J. Simpson. ... A...
MATT EPSTEIN
I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must ent...
JANE AUSTEN
You see death is a tool to degrade and destroy people, I see it as a life lesson that I use to empow...
ANGEL RAMON MEDINA
He did not see any reason why the devil should have all the good tunes.
ROWLAND HILL
Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: t...
HUGO BALL
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BILLY DECOSTA
If God is good, then why did he create man, the most cruel thing known to date?
PETER MIDTGARD
Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all The other feigned to be. The flippant Frenchman speaks: ...
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Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872 The truth is that every man is ...
FREDERICK DENISON MAURICE
Every man is the craftsman of his future, whether he hone it himself or allow fate do it.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent m...
IAN MCSHANE
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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KASRA NAJI
Everywhere you went, he was there. He did exactly what a big man is supposed to do.
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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO
The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
DAN BROWN
He has entered a resounding plea of not guilty.
LOUIS BUSICO
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS
A guilty plea is a guilty plea the way I look at it, ... He is found guilty legally. There is no dif...
EDDIE MONTGOMERY
I thought either we were making him (Marion) an All-American or he already is one. He's a very good ...
JOSH GRANT
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every mor...
WILL ROGERS
They have a lot to do if this man is guilty. ... Janet Chandler didn't deserve to die.
DAVID SCHOCK
He can do that. He did a good job of taking it to the basket.
DAVE LUTZ
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every mor...
WILL ROGERS
God did not curse man, he cursed the earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA
I did not know the woman soul, that crowning gift of Providence to man, which, if we do not ourselve...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR.
Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the ...
GARET GARRETT
We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS...
A man is innocent until proven guilty.
CATHERINE DENTE
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do himabsolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS
A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food...
CHINUA ACHEBE
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he...
THOMAS HUXLEY
Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.
THOMAS KEMPIS
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard ...
SAMUEL ADAMS
In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by couns...
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Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things a...
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