Top 100 Quotes About Convicted
#1. I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband ... ' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.
Vance Havner
#2. By the age of 24, I found myself convicted in prison in Egypt, being blacklisted from three countries in the world for attempting to overthrow their governments, being subjected to torture in Egyptian jails, and sentenced to five years as a prisoner of conscience.
Maajid Nawaz
#3. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)
Rosa Brooks
#4. The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.
Victoria Nuland
#5. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.
Rachel Maddow
#6. The code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon prescribed this
punishment for a doctor convicted of inept surgery: amputation
of the hands.
L. M. Boyd
#7. I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?
Matt Groening
#8. If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.
Rush Limbaugh
#9. Your colleague, Captain Grimes, has been convicted before me on evidence that leaves no possibility of his innocence - of a crime (I might almost call it a course of action) which I can neither understand nor excuse. I dare say I need not particularise.
Evelyn Waugh
#10. Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.
William Butler Yeats
#11. Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.
Robert Kiyosaki
#12. Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half of them have been convicted.
Jim Sensenbrenner
#13. We can be convicted of sin - we can pray and confess our sin - we can repent - but the real test is our willingness to obey.
Billy Graham
#14. Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.
Jacob M. Appel
#15. I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.
Wesley Snipes
#16. The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.
Brennan Manning
#17. We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.
R. L. Hymers Jr.
#18. A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.
Molly Crabapple
#19. I'm *fine*. I'm alive and believe me, I gave as good as I got, if not better. You don't need to go kill anyone.'
'I'm not killing anyone. I'm just going to shoot them all several times. If they die, that's their fault.'
-Convicted
Dee Tenorio
#20. Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.
Gerald Kogan
#21. There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
Oswald Chambers
#22. Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.
Matthew Henry
#23. The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher
#24. The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental.
Thomas Gately Briody
#25. The average prison term for a convicted murderer in America is 6.5 years. The average tenure for a member of Congress is 13 years. We've got it backwards. We are giving early release to the wrong criminal class.
Pat Robertson
#26. Why would Dad call you? I mean, you have to admit that he would have been better off calling the local prison and asking them to send out one of the convicted killers to come find me. - Shella
Krista Alasti
#27. I've never been disbarred, committed or convicted of moral turpitude, and the only time I was arrested, it was a case of mistaken identity ... I didn't know the guy I hit was a cop.
Paul Levine
#28. Miracles arise from conviction. Be convicted about these things: Miracles can happen. Miracles do happen. Love makes them happen.
Marianne Williamson
#29. May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)
Aileen Wuornos
#30. Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.
Billy Graham
#31. Kiss the hand of him who can renounce what he has publicly taught, when convicted of his error; and who, with heartfelt joy, embraces the truth, though with the sacrifice of favorite opinions.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#32. You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, But I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.
Dan Barker
#33. That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime.
Geraldo Rivera
#34. I just think it's so outrageous that fifteen years is the kind of minimum amount of time that any wrongfully convicted person spends in prison.
Amy J. Berg
#35. Australia is not very exclusive. On the visa application they still ask if you've been convicted of a felony - although they are willing to give you a visa even if you haven't been.
P. J. O'Rourke
#36. Tara McLellan, who these men have been convicted of killing, was a colleague of mine and a very close family friend.
James Patterson
#37. How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#38. I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.
H.P. Lovecraft
#39. Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil Donahue
#40. A Pennsylvania woman convicted for shoplifting was sentenced to wear a badge that reads "Convicted Shoplifter." However, her lawyers hope to plea bargain down to a bumper sticker reading "I'd Rather Be Stealing!.
Jimmy Fallon
#41. I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.
Paul Simon
#42. And how they set me up in court! They really set me up!" "Even if they hadn't set you up, you'd have been convicted anyway," Alyosha said, sighing. "Yes, the local public is sick of me!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#43. We had to fill in forms which asked us whether we had ever been convicted of any crime. I hesitated about this. The NCO in charge, seeing me hesitate, explained kindly:'You write "No" in that line'.
Auberon Waugh
#44. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.
Adolf Hitler
#45. The frogs hopping indoors agree that we are on a prison planet.
They themselves are frog criminals that were convicted of doing frog crimes.
Philip K. Dick
#46. Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
Seneca The Younger
#47. I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.
Lorenzo Snow
#48. People are sometimes losing their homes before being convicted of a crime, or their cash or their cars.
Sarah Stillman
#49. Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
Watchman Nee
#50. We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.
Deb Caletti
#51. Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as cruelty.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#52. I have never stuck up for any criminal. I have merely asked for the orderly administration of an impartial justice ... Due legal process is my own safeguard against being convicted unjustly. To my mind, that's government. That's law and order.
Erle Stanley Gardner
#53. We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan
#54. Many people shun an anointed atmosphere because they know that it will challenge them to change. Preferring to stay where the power of God is not moving, they are never challenged, convicted, or transformed.
T.D. Jakes
#55. No matter how convinced we are that someone is nasty, evil or just plain criminal, if they have not been convicted of any crime and support views that are upheld and defended by many law-abiding citizens, the only way to tackle them is through democratic debate.
Julian Baggini
#56. Amazon webhosting dropped Wikileaks as a customer after receiving a complaint from U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, despite the fact that Wikileaks had not been charged, let alone convicted, of any crime.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#57. Jennifer can no longer ignore the personal connection. Is there a copycat killer at work? Was the wrong man convicted? Or is there something more sinister at play ...
Caroline Mitchell
#58. My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
Maajid Nawaz
#59. Each of us is born with an internal navigational system. The thinking of the world has a way of switching the system off, but we can always turn it on again through prayer, meditation and forgiveness. Doing this puts us back on track in our lives, making us wise, convicted and powerful.
Marianne Williamson
#60. I do not want to alarm her with the thought that we are being stalked by a convicted egg roll felon.
David Klass
#61. The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.
Horace
#62. 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
#63. People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
Assata Shakur
#64. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
Paul Rudnick
#65. Hard to imagine 40 years ago people could be convicted of a crime, fined, sent to prison for using the most common forms of birth control.
Dick Durbin
#66. There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.
Neil Gaiman
#67. It's very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles
Rebekah Brooks
#68. I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.
Tupac Shakur
#69. I've always felt very convicted that I didn't want to work in kind of the Christian film-making ghetto. My calling was always to show myself approved and worthy to work at the highest level possible in terms of craft and working with very gifted people and trying to be excellent in everything.
Brian Bird
#70. I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.
Hilary Kornblith
#71. The fact is I have never been convicted of a crime.
Paul Watson
#72. No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.
Niecy Nash
#73. A statute that lets some wrongfully convicted individuals seek restitution but denies that right to others is an unjust and unequal application of the law.
Eric Schneiderman
#74. 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
#75. (on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
Corrie Ten Boom
#76. The average term length of a member of congress is approaching 15 years, and the average term length of a convicted criminal is less than three. We've got that backward.
Oliver North
#77. No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.
Bernard B. Kerik
#78. It's like im committing suicide and its not the first time.. Do you know what is more devastating?
"No," he said.
"The fact that both times it was my loved ones who convicted such a death for me
Parinoush Saniee
#80. If you're in the contracting business in this country, you're suspect. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey, you're indictable. If you're in the contracting business in New Jersey and are Italian, you're convicted.
Raymond J. Donovan
#81. When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.
Dwight L. Moody
#82. Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.
Terry Gross
#83. I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.'
- Katrina, 'Convicted
Dee Tenorio
#84. Consider the statistics that African American Males are stopped by the police more often, convicted for crimes more often and draw prison more often and draw longer prison sentences more often than their white counterparts.
The Prophet Of Life
#85. In the US the overwhelming majority of those executed are psychotic, alcoholic, drug addicted or mentally unstable. They frequently are raised in an impoverished and abusive environment. Seldom are people with money or prestige convicted of capital offenses, even more seldom are they executed.
George Ryan
#86. It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.
Denis Johnson
#87. Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#88. Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.
Jostein Gaarder
#89. If you're Obama, can you imagine being lectured to about honesty and integrity from a convicted perjurer, Bill Clinton? My gosh, folks, I mean, literally how far has one fallen when that is the case?
Rush Limbaugh
#90. I was at MSNBC; I was constantly saying to them during Bridgegate, 'You've convicted Governor Christie without one iota of fact attaching him to the decision to stall the traffic on the bridge. Why don't we wait until the federal government or the state government ... completes its investigation.'
Tom Brokaw
#91. No matter how many famous people were convicted of rape or murder, still the belief persisted, almost pagan in its intensity: not him. It couldn't be him. He's famous.
Robert Galbraith
#92. Some fifteen percent of the 6,500 staff members working at Auschwitz would eventually be convicted of war crimes, with the government of Poland being among the most active in investigating and prosecuting war criminals.
Larry Berg
#93. Scarcely a year previously, his father, Percival, had been convicted of a savage and well-publicized attack upon three young Muggles.
J.K. Rowling
#94. I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.
Aksel Hennie
#95. Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
Jo Bonner
#96. They tell me that you have been crying in your sleep. Do not grieve our separation, my love, for our reunion will come just as swiftly.
-Letter from unknown prisoner, convicted of treason, to fiancee
Marie Lu
#97. Um, hi, I'm Carswell Thorne, a convicted criminal in your country. Have we met?
Marissa Meyer
#98. To get to action, one needs faith. Faith results in a convicted heart - a heart that is not proud.
Matthew Sleeth
#99. We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.
Vance Havner
#100. Martha Stewart was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice and could serve up to 20 years in Congress.
Craig Kilborn
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