Quotes About Innocent Man

#1. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

John Grisham

#2. Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

Joseph Addison

#3. I wish the choice I have to make today was so simple. I realise I have the choice to believe in two terrible things. Either Damian is a murderer or Beckett arrested an innocent man.
Just thinking about it is making my head hurt.
Well then forget your head, listen to your heart.

Richard Castle

#4. If there is going to be war within countries, states, cities, or neighbours let the respective leaders fight those wars themselves; and do not bring innocent man and women into the fight.

Temitope Owosela

#5. I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

J.K. Rowling

#6. If you throw an innocent man in prison, he'll start to doubt that he's indeed innocent.

Luca Rossi

#7. The most innocent man's words will be used against him.

Kenneth Eade

#8. Regardless of the fact Denker was a sadistic killer, and not an innocent man. The judicial system seemed designed to keep those killers alive for as long as possible, regardless of evidence, or the hurt it caused the victims' families -

Toni Anderson

#9. 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

#10. Is this what she would have wanted, Hawke?" Ronan asked quietly. "Justice at the cost of an innocent man and his child?

Sloane Kennedy

#11. Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Kin Hubbard

#12. It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Norman Lamm

#14. The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb
what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

Jim Cymbala

#15. 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

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

Ian McShane

#17. I worshiped God with innocent heart when I was a little kid; and now I worship you with little heart while I am innocent man.

M.F. Moonzajer

#18. If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!

Gorilla Monsoon

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. science teacher. "The police had me in custody, an innocent man, a victim of circumstances, and because they had no evidence at

James Patterson

#22. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

Toni Morrison

#23. There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

Michael Connelly

#24. It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

Rick Perry

#25. 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

#26. Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

Philip K. Dick

#28. No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

Garrison Keillor

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Richard Jewell

#32. Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Charles Dickens

#33. I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Jim Garrison

#34. I can't stand cruelty to animals. Nothing gives a man the right to take his frustrations out on an innocent creature

Elise Noble

#35. A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

Frederick The Great

#36. And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.

Kahlil Gibran

#37. It's almost impossible to deal with a crazy man, except that he does have religious beliefs, and the world of Islam will be damaged if a fanatic like him should commit murder in the name of religion against 60 innocent people.

Ruhollah Khomeini

#38. Those innocent eyes cut my soul like a razor ... however, in a depraved man this, too, might be only a sensual attraction.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#39. His eyes. Unclouded by cynicism, questioning but with a certainty that there were answers, warmly innocent in some strange way. A child's eyes, she thought. Even more irresistible when set in a man's face.

Alexandra York

#40. 'I froze. Like an idiot I froze. He was staring right at me. ( ... ) He wore an innocent and mesmerizing smile directed right at me. I did my best to ignore it but having a gorgeously naked man staring at me like I was the only girl in the world was impossible to brush off.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#41. Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

Richard Steele

#42. Effortlessly, the man sowed the idea of sex with his quips, the smiles, and something as innocent as their legs brushing against one another.

Melissa Blue

#43. I mean no disrespect to the gentlemen of the bench, but it is no secret that our system of justice, praised throughout Europe for its severity and its swiftness, is a terrible and fearful thing, and no man, guilty or innocent, wishes to stand before it.

David Liss

#44. He wasn't a hero. He wasn't the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith

Christine Feehan

#45. Every man should be adjudged innocent until there was proof against him, and all the more when very suspect and malicious charges had already been thrown at him, and rang leaden as false coin.

Ellis Peters

#46. No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Lucan

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

Voltaire

#48. The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Juvenal

#49. His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those of any of the ancient philosophers ... He was the most innocent, the most benevolent, the most eloquent and sublime character that ever has been exhibited to man.

Thomas Jefferson

#50. But I'm completely innocent in this case. I'm the victim. Don't you understand? If she'd just dressed in an appropriate manner, nothing would have happened. I'm a peaceful man, and now I'm going to prison.
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Steen Langstrup

#51. What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals, ... is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization ... it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.

Georges Duhamel

#52. I call wise man who, while he is innocent , endures insults and blows with a patience equal to its strength.

Gautama Buddha

#53. Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.

G.K. Chesterton

#54. On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown boys. Of the love of fellows they know nothing. They cannot love each other in this easy, innocent, spontaneous way because they cannot love themselves.

Germaine Greer

#55. Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Phil Donahue

#56. ...A man's religion and love life were nobody else's concern so long as neither of them gouged out some innocent bystander's eyes.

Douglas C. Jones

#57. You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#58. He came in. "Yes, Miss Marshall?"
He looked ... so innocent. Stephen was good at looking innocent; a necessary skill for a man who had a dreadfully mischievous sense of humor.

Courtney Milan

#59. Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#60. But I'm a selfish man. I've wanted you since you fell into my office. You are exquisite, honest, warm, strong, witty, beguilingly innocent; the list is endless. I'm in awe of you. I want you, and the thought of anyone else having you is like a knife twisting in my dark soul.

E.L. James

#61. If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

Gautama Buddha

#62. A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life.

Henry Miller

#63. He had been instructed only in that innocent and ineffectual way in which the Catholic priests teach the aborigines, by which the pupil is never educated to the degree of consciousness, but only to the degree of trust and reverence, and a child is not made a man, but kept a child. When

Henry David Thoreau

#64. Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains!" Rousseau saw the primitive as innocent and autonomous freedom as the final good. We

Francis A. Schaeffer

#65. An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect's point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#66. I have seen many innocent people suffer and
die, and many a wicked man swim in prosperity. Have you
completely forgotten and abandoned us, are you completely
disgusted with your creation, do you want us all to perish?

Hermann Hesse

#67. Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

Archibald MacLeish

#68. Nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over.

Andrew James Pritchard

#69. 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

#70. (letters) They were like a kelp forest, they cast a weird green light, you could get lost there, become tangled and drown.
... still eyeing the letters like Portuguese man-of-wars floating on the innocent sea.

Janet Fitch

#71. Roof was a young man radicalized to race hatred who reportedly wanted to start a race war and who killed nine innocent people as his opening salvo. If that's not terrorism, we need to redefine the term.

Anonymous

#72. The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Jean De La Bruyere

#73. The Tempter ere th' Accuser of man-kind, To wreck on innocent frail man his loss Of that first Battel, and his flight to Hell: Yet

John Milton

#74. I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#75. In a battle of wills, of the gods of old. For each his revenge, will he forfeit his soul. On the chess board of blood, will their narrative play. aged, innocent lives, revenge claims her way. Out of hate will come love, and love will come hate. For immortal and man, have entwined their damned fate.

L.A. Starkey

#76. He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.
Jean Valjean about Cossette

Victor Hugo

#77. I am a woman pretending to be a man, pretending to be this ship's first officer, pretending to be a pirate, pretending to be innocent of murder ... I begin to lose track of all the roles I am playing.

Mercedes Lackey

#78. He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Frank Herbert

#79. God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father.

Billy Graham

#80. Okay, you need to eat something. Before we do anything else, you have to eat."
"I just did."
I gave him a hard look, but his face was entirely innocent. He was fucking with me, right? He had to be. "Man cannot live by pussy alone," I said.

Ava Lore

#81. The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

John Quincy Adams

#82. In today's world no one is innocent, no one a neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.

George Habash

#83. A virgin is defined as someone pure, innocent. It is also described as not yet explored or exploited by man.

Alessandra Torre

#84. I used to know Brian Howard well
a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous
constantly attacking people with his fists in public places
so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart.

Evelyn Waugh

#85. It seems to me the Land of Oz is a little ahead of the United States in some of its laws. For here, if one can't talk clearly, and straight to the point, they send him to Rigmarole Town; while Uncle Sam lets him roam around wild and free, to torture innocent people.

L. Frank Baum

#86. This World is filled with Demons (Humans) who love lying to each other. If they find a true man they will stab in back and act like innocent.

Srinivas Shenoy

#87. For I am no orator. What would I have said if they had let me go on? That it is worse to beat a man's feet to pulp than to kill him in combat? That it brings shame on everyone when a girl is permitted to flog a man? That spectacles of cruelty corrupt the hearts of the innocent?

J.M. Coetzee

#88. With his buzz-cut black hair, muscles and menagerie of tattoos, the man looked like he lived in a cave and sanded timber with his head and flung innocent young women down on beds and had his wicked way with them.

Cari Silverwood

#89. Okay, Troy ... you're right. I'll take care of your baby for you ... cause ... like you say ... she's innocent ... and you can't visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. From right now ... this child got a mother. But you a womanless man.

August Wilson

#90. Nini was looking at her face, so pure, so innocent, and so angelic. He was wondering about the man that she thought he was. He wanted so much to be that man. He felt like he never wanted to leave her dream.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#91. In any soul, the Condemned Man argued, was the ability to create a whole world, as big and variegated as the one that he and the Magistrate lived in. But if this was true of the Innocent, it was true of the Condemned Man as well, and so he should not - no one should ever - be put to death.

Neal Stephenson

#92. It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#93. Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

#94. What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

Plato

#95. When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#96. Stories are not always innocent; ... they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.

Chinua Achebe

#97. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.

Nalini Singh

#98. I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's white house. I would do that for you and no other man inthe relm. But it would be a lie and I will do anything but lie to you - I swear that.

Patricia A. McKillip

#99. Only the sacrifice of an innocent god could justify the endless and universal torture of innocence. Only the most abject suffering by God could assuage man's agony."208 Berger sees the brilliance of

Timothy J. Keller

#100. A man is seldom more manly than when he is what you call unmanned,
the source of his emotion is championship, pity, and courage; the instinctive desire to cherish those who are innocent and unhappy, and defend those who are tender and weak.

William Makepeace Thackeray