A Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French - Philosopher
June 28, 1712 - July 2, 1778

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He who blushes is already guilty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure would be, I don't know, taking gratification in some stranger's ghastly death or something - which I guess I do enjoy, because I read a ton of true crime.

Bill Hader

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.

Werner Herzog

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

Whittaker Chambers

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

Aldous Huxley

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

Leonard Peltier

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

Katya Zamolodchikova

The person who takes power will never be happy with those things they gain. They have lost their essential balance and innocence. And without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

Frederick Lenz

If you feel guilty or quietly ashamed, seek the power of the Atonement.

Neill F. Marriott

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

Busy Philipps

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.