Top 100 Not Guilty Sayings
#2. I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.
Huey Newton
#3. I can't say I'm not guilty of age discrimination when it comes to animals. Like most people I've walked into a shelter more than a few times and a magnetic force has pulled me toward those fluffy little puppies in the corner cage.
Jenna Morasca
#4. I don't fear jail because I know I'm not guilty. I know I did nothing wrong. I did nothing criminal and I also believe my God will get me through this.
Kenneth Lay
#5. I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.
Condoleezza Rice
#6. Absolutely, one hundred percent, not guilty.
O.J. Simpson
#7. I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.
Sean Combs
#8. The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.
Vincent Bugliosi
#9. I thought justice ground real slow in Texas." "Only if you plead not guilty.
Lee Child
#10. To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.
Jerry Bridges
#11. People make distinction between innocent and not guilty
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Sarah Sheppard
#12. When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
R. Kelly
#13. I hope, as he assures me, he was not guilty of Indecency; but have Reason to bless God, who, by disabling me in my Faculties, enabled me to preserve my Innocence; and when all my Strength would have signified nothing, magnified himself in my Weakness.
Samuel Richardson
#14. Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.
Michael Connelly
#16. At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.
James Thurber
#17. You are not guilty of anything until you are charged and tried.
Jim Gilmore
#18. I have never sold my story, done 'Hello!' magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.
Paul Merton
#19. My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.
Neil Gaiman
#20. Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
Walt Whitman
#21. I've told you before I'm not guilty of anything; I'm just guilty, that's all.
Mike McCormack
#22. Just because he's not in jail doesn't mean he's not guilty; it just means he never got caught.
M. Leighton
#23. Casey Anthony was found not guilty. This means that President Obama's economic team is only the second-most clueless group in America.
Jay Leno
#24. Khrushchev murders people without regard to race, color, or creed, and therefore whatever he is guilty of, he is not guilty of discrimination?
William F. Buckley Jr.
#25. If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
#27. Why should I resign ... First of all, I am not guilty of any of these charges. Second, we have a constitution to follow.
Joseph Estrada
#29. Paul presents the Good News: Salvation is available to all, regardless of a person's identity, sin, or heritage. We are saved by grace (unearned, undeserved favor from God) through faith (complete trust) in Christ and his finished work. Through him we can stand before God justified, not guilty
Anonymous
#30. If it is true that cowardice is the most grave vice, then the dog, at least, is not guilty of it.
Mikhail Bulgakov
#31. I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?
Chris Christie
#32. Hillary Clinton, as an awful judge of the character of a dictator and butcher in the Middle East. Is she guilty or not guilty?
Chris Christie
#33. I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.
Banksy
#34. To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
William Penn
#35. Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.
Martin Luther
#36. 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
#38. She is in love, she craves sugar, eats a dried apricot, another. All at once she is really tired. She will not wait any longer for Romain and goes to bed. She is not guilty because, she keeps telling herself, thrilled, she had no say in it. She falls asleep immediately.
Herve Le Tellier
#39. If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
Akio Morita
#40. The Argentineans practice on the court for two hours a day, then they must practice in front of a mirror for two more hour saying 'I'm not guilty.'
Vince Spadea
#41. So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.
Bernhard Schlink
#42. Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty?
Chris Christie
#43. When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.
Andrew Fastow
#44. When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.
Theodore Roosevelt
#45. When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#46. Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
Hannah Arendt
#47. He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.
Hilary Mantel
#48. If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?
Lucy Stone
#49. I understand he's not guilty of anything except maybe loving too much. This boy, he is just ... mine.
Deb Caletti
#50. Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
Sandor Marai
#51. It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty?
Chris Christie
#52. Not guilty doesn't mean you're innocent.
Tom Leveen
#53. Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously ... and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.
Hunter S. Thompson
#54. But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.
Augustin Misago
#55. I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.
Martha Stewart
#56. Shattered by the cumulative effect of so much horror and death, Joan was again afflicted by a crisis of faith. How could a good and benevolent God let such a thing happen? How could He so terribly afflict even children and babies, who were not guilty of any sin?
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#57. We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty
Gordon Clark
#58. If any speak ill of thee, flee home to thy own conscience, and examine thy heart: if thou be guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction: make use of both; so shalt thou distil honey out of gall, and out of an open enemy create a secret friend.
Francis Quarles
#60. Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at all who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal punishments.
Pope Pius IX
#61. When you give decision that the guilty is not guilty, only then will the guilty become not guilty.
Dada Bhagwan
#62. It's true I didn't get a fair trial, but the problem is people don't understand the details. It is important to understand the details of the trial and why I'm not guilty under the charges that were brought against me.
Chen Shui-bian
#63. If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
George Herbert
#64. I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself
as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.
Joseph Addison
#65. I hate people saying anything stupid. I don't really suffer fools very well at all. When people are acting like idiots, not that I'm not guilty of doing the odd idiotic thing myself from time to time, but when people say stupid things, it stresses me out.
Joshua Jackson
#66. Captain, you have heard the charges. How do you plead? Before you answer, you should know that if you plead "guilty" you'll be immediately extradited and U.N.S. law will take over."
"Not guilty."
"Also, it's not very nice to lie in court."
"But it beats extradition.
Howard Tayler
#67. I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music
notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
Jennifer Donnelly
#68. But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak
Franz Kafka
#70. The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.
LaToya Jackson
#72. I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.
Clint Eastwood
#73. Dear Hitler
Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this
Leonard Cohen
#74. Besides, it's possible he's not guilty. I laughed so hard I had to put down my fries. I
Marcia Clark
#75. Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#76. Once again, as a flawed evaluator of dictators and failed strategist who has permitted Russia back in as a major player in the Middle East, is Hillary Clinton guilty or not guilty?
Chris Christie
#77. The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live." ... It was if someone in charge had said to me: not guilty. Permission granted to continue on with your life as usual.
Alice Steinbach
#78. Hovind said he was entering a not guilty plea 'under duress'.
Kent Hovind
#79. Basically what's happening is I'm pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.
Alan Cinis
#80. It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)
Stella Rimington
#81. I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.
Brittany Murphy
#82. There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done!
Joseph Delaney
#83. We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.
Sue Monk Kidd
#84. Sadly, if we are not confident about our choices, we can easily let other peoples' comments make us feel guilty and ruin the joy we need to experience in life through doing the little things that mean a lot to us.
Joyce Meyer
#85. We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.
Bryan Stevenson
#86. There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God.
Christoph Von Schmid
#87. Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
Cristiane Serruya
#88. There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away wit it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.
Joan Blondell
#89. There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
Harold S. Kushner
#90. If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.
Alan Dershowitz
#91. For her part, Amy Kev's Waffles with a passionate ferocity that she felt a little bit guilty about not being able to feel, most of the time, for humans. It probably helped that he was constantly doing cute shit and couldn't speak.
Emily Gould
#92. We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Complaining was the reason the Jews ended up wandering in the desert for forty years. If we were more grateful for what God has done for us, abasing ourselves would not be a problem.
Monica Johnson
#93. With tears of penitence and poignant, tender anguish, he will exclaim: 'Others are better than I, they wanted to save me, not to ruin me!' Oh, this act of mercy is so easy for you, for in the absence of anything like real evidence it will be too awful for you to pronounce: 'Yes, he is guilty.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#94. Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.
Anthony Of Padua
#95. A jury found former Enron sleezeballs Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling guilty of fraud and conspiracy. Ken Lay? That's not a good name to have when you're going to prison. And Kenny Boy ain't too good either ... I guess in prison they'll have done to them what they did to the stockholders.
Jay Leno
#96. Somewhere within the concept of justice, the worst of the guilty must always be removed. I cannot divorce this, not completely. The people must have justice and so I want to reinstate and enshrine the blessed and holy guillotine!
Roseanne Barr
#97. Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#98. There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.
Brian Richardson
#99. Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts ... in negative space.
Marilyn Manson
#100. Today, let's set our minds and hearts on feeling more thankful for what we are than guilty for what we're not. Let's cut the threads of guilt with grace.
Lysa TerKeurst
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