Top 28 You Are Innocent Until Proven Guilty Quotes
#1. I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.
Bryan Fuller
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.
Emile Durkheim
#6. We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
Viola Davis
#7. A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
David M. Raup
#8. When you're working with the best of the best, I'm not gonna put that on hold so I can work with people who studied the best of the best.
Shia Labeouf
#9. The only power she wanted over him was the power to make him happy ... She wanted them to be equal in their loving, not master and slave.
Mary Jo Putney
#10. 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
#12. There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.
Emma Sulkowicz
#13. Gentlemen, I have spent the night thinking about this Peruvian (peace) initiative and I have to tell you that if it is your decision to accept then you will have to find another Prime Minister.
Margaret Thatcher
#14. If you were to be stranded on a desert island, what three items would you take? I gave this frivolous answer: A cat, a hat and a piece of string.
Joanne Harris
#16. 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
#17. In an extroverted society, the difference between an introvert and an extrovert is that an introvert is often unconsciously deemed guilty until proven innocent.
Criss Jami
#19. The presumption of innocent until proven guilty has been overshadowed by the presumption of guilty until proven wealthy
Frank Vetro
#20. I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?
Tommy Bond
#21. You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!
Jon Stewart
#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. You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.
Chris Webber
#24. Kenneth Copeland is a friend, innocent until proven guilty.
Mike Huckabee
#25. 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
#26. All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
David R. Brower
#27. Life, I'd heard someone say, is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. It seemed to me that it was both at once, even for those of us who don't do much of either.
Lawrence Block
#28. All saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.
George Orwell