A Quote by Voltaire

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

Voltaire

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Voltaire
French - Writer
November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778

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

Ian McShane

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

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

Brent Weeks

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

Any time that when you're rich and guilty, you're treated better than if you're poor and innocent, something has to change.

Rob Morgan

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

Maimonides

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

Max Anders

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

James Russell Lowell

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

A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.