Innocent Guilty Quotes

#1. The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Malcolm X

#2. No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Andrew Young

#3. That is the problem with revenge - you wind up destroying the innocent as well as the guilty.

Cassandra Clare

#4. In peace alone reason was heard and merit distinguished; but in the rage of war the blind steel spared the innocent no more than the guilty.

Tacitus

#5. Guilty until proven innocent
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Sara Shepard

#6. To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

Publilius Syrus

#7. All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.

George Orwell

#8. It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

Brent Weeks

#9. A king who's innocent
of the things of which he's guilty?

Kristin Cashore

#10. I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

Christine Pelosi

#11. I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

Scott Turow

#12. All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

David R. Brower

#13. Looking at Athena now, he couldn't believe he'd been dumb enough to walk away from her. When he'd realized how innocent she was it had freaked him out, to put it mildly. Had made him feel guilty for the dirty things he'd said to her, wanted to do to her. With her ---

Katie Reus

#14. Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.

Elizabeth F. Loftus

#15. War does not ask which of its victims deserves to die and which does not. It is indiscriminate. Innocent as well as guilty fall before it.

Connie Brockway

#16. But when it is a question of the life of a king it is better to sacrifice the innocent than save the guilty

Andrew Lang

#17. Kenneth Copeland is a friend, innocent until proven guilty.

Mike Huckabee

#18. In it's purest form, an act of retribution provides symmetry. The rendering payment of crimes against the innocent. But a danger on retaliation lies on the furthering cycle of violence. Still, it's a risk that must be met; and the greater offense is to allow the guilty go unpunished.

Emily Thorne

#19. For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

Alex Gibney

#20. The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.

Robert Jordan

#21. Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Max Lucado

#22. One can go on saying for years that one doesn't listen to gossip, that the absent cannot defend themselves from slander, etc., etc.; but, after all, isn't the provocation of so much gossip an offense in itself?

Thornton Wilder

#23. To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Nelson Algren

#24. If the innocent are unjust, I'd rather be counted among the guilty.
-Valerie

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#25. Maybe, just maybe, you're not as innocent as you'd like to think. Or maybe I'm not so guilty ...

Stylo Fantome

#26. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Voltaire

#27. For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

James Frey

#28. One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Edward Coke

#29. I realized she was finding Junior innocent of rape. That meant that I was guilty of lying.

Aspen Matis

#30. In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bette Davis

#31. The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction ...

Thomas Pynchon

#32. More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Anthony Anderson

#33. You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

Jon Stewart

#34. I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief.

Paul Beatty

#35. The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy

Frank Vetro

#36. God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

Horace

#37. This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

Chris Asplen

#38. You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

Khalil Gibran

#39. Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. -Kahlan

Terry Goodkind

#40. Innocent or guilty, a Lannister pays his debts.

George R R Martin

#41. What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

Catherine The Great

#42. The answers to the human problems of ecology are to be found in economy. And the answers to the problems of economy are to be found in culture and character. To fail to see this is to go on dividing the world falsely between guilty producers and innocent consumers.

Wendell Berry

#43. My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

Sonia Sotomayor

#44. Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Robert Shapiro

#45. You say somebody's guilty, everybody believes you. You say they're innocent, nobody cares.

Paul Newman

#46. I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Ian McShane

#47. Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.

Terry Pratchett

#48. I am a star, a twinkling star. I'm an infant on the edge of a grave and an old man in a cradle, both a fish in the sky and a bird in the sea. I'm a boy on the outside but a girl on the inside, innocent in body, guilty in soul.

Fridrik Erlings

#49. Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Noam Chomsky

#50. That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Benjamin Franklin

#51. Don't deceive yourself. Everyone is guilty of something, and even the innocent can be a threat. Perhaps it takes small crimes to prevent bigger ones, Colonel West, but it's up to bigger men than us to decide.

Joe Abercrombie

#52. An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#53. I believe that no one should be executed, guilty or innocent. There are appropriate sanctions that protect society and punish wrongdoers without forcing us to stoop to the level of the least among us at his or her worst moment.

Mike Farrell

#54. It is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer, than that one guilty should escape.

Mary Shelley

#55. A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Jean De La Bruyere

#56. The influence of sin touches the innocent as well as the guilty.

Billy Graham

#57. Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between "guilty" and "innocent." Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn't I be "neither" or "both"? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, "Your Honor, I plead human.

Paul Beatty

#58. To be guilty is to be innocent. Thus, to be innocent is to be guilty.

Frank Herbert

#59. It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

Ronald Jones

#60. made myself guilty of mass murder so I could be proclaimed innocent of incompetence.

Joe Abercrombie

#61. This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

William Landay

#62. I would be guilty only if I were innocent of working to destroy racism in my country.

Nadine Gordimer

#63. We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

Archibald MacLeish

#64. I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.

William Landay

#65. No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#66. It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

Maimonides

#67. When everything you love has been stolen from you, sometimes all you have left is revenge.Sometimes, the innocent get hurt. But one by one, the guilty will pay. Nothing ever goes exactly as you expect. And mistakes are life and death. Collateral damage is inescapable.

Emily Thorne

#68. Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

Robert A. Heinlein

#69. Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.

Sandor Marai

#70. What a web deceit made, its strands strangling the innocent and the guilty alike.

Karleen Koen

#71. Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

George Bernard Shaw

#72. I am sick of hearing about "innocent victims", there are no "innocent victims". If you live on this planet you're guilty. Period, f ... you, end of report, next case, next f ... ing case.

George Carlin

#73. Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

#74. There's no blade sharper than the truth under the Sun, it's enlightens the mind, releases the captives, condemns the guilty and spares the innocent; it's the only weapon a hero ever needs to fight a war, the one which is conducted without a need of any Iron blade!

Marcus L. Lukusa

#75. Not guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.

Tom Leveen

#76. I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'

Alan Dershowitz

#77. Secrets can kill the innocent and enchant the guilty.

Alexis Hurley

#78. One thing you learn in my job is that the truth is usually the last thing people want to emerge. Guilty or innocent, it doesn't matter. Everyone has something to hide.

Martin Edwards

#79. A law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing;

Charles Dickens

#80. The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Saul Bellow

#81. A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty ... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

J.C. Ryle

#82. Time for bed. I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.

James Patterson

#83. Righteous passion is an innocent prisoner
until the day you set it free.
Sinful passion is a guilty prisoner;
lock it up and throw away the key.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#84. [Murder] doesn't concern the victim and the guilty only. It affects the innocent too. You and I are innocent, but the shadow of murder has touched us. We don't know how that shadow is going to affect our lives.

Agatha Christie

#85. Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent should suffer. - Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1766)

Anonymous

#86. It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed."
"That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

Terry Pratchett

#87. I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.

Isaac Parker

#88. I think that all of us, as Americans, are due due process and have a right to a fair trial, and have a right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. I think that is the American way and it's the foundation upon which this country was built.

Wesley Snipes

#89. Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Khalil Gibran

#90. Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith

#91. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

George Orwell

#92. Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Andrew Vachss

#93. I am not guilty, I am innocent.

Saddam Hussein

#94. He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.

James Dashner

#95. We have a Bill of Rights, we have trial by jury. We have a notion that you are - you're innocent until you're proven guilty. We have all these things.

Joe Biden

#96. Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

John Garamendi

#97. Sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man
the most guilty.

Franz Kafka

#98. Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police
who already think you're guilty
will find it for you.

Douglas Adams

#99. Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Andy Griffith

#100. It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

Publilius Syrus