A Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
English - Novelist
August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Benjamin Franklin

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

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Ayn Rand

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ian McShane

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

Brent Weeks

In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.

Andrew Jackson

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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

I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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.