Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.
Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.