Innocence-Guilt

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue. (Racine)

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. (Archibald MacLeish)

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)

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless. (Emerson)

Bad company is as instructive as debauchery: one is indemnified for the loss of innocence by the loss of prejudice. (Denis Diderot)

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours. (Thoreau)

After the great destruction, everyone will prove that he was innocent. (Gunter Eich)