Top 1200 Guilty Until Proven Innocent Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

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

I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

But I will plead not guilty until death. I will plead not guilty until there is proof to the contrary.

For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'

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

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

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

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

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.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

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

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

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

The question in the Simpson case has never been whether he is guilty or not guilty but, given the facts and circumstances of this case, whether it is possible for him to be innocent. And the answer to that question has always been an unequivocal no.

I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I realized it could have been a steak or a plate of fries or a bagel. Anything. Making people feel guilty is a staple of religion and society in general. It works. And if you can transfer guilt from a real criminal to an innocent bystander, you've really got something going. It's a magic stage trick that can make a career.

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

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

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

People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you. You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

When you are being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman, you are the prisoner in the dock: assumed guilty unless proved innocent, under intense pressure, on the defensive. There are very few people who can look relaxed in that position.

The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic illogic - if we know the system is flawed, if we know there are innocent people on Death Row, then until the system is reformed, should we not abandon the death penalty to protect those who are innocent?

Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.

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

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

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

When I was a prosecutor, we had one straightforward goal: convict the guilty and protect the innocent. To me, that simple mission still holds true.

I believe we should come down very firmly on the guilty without infringing the civil liberties of the innocent, like publishing mobile phone bills.

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

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.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

In Hollywood it seems that you're considered gay until proven otherwise.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's life also demand the “right” to abortion. Usually, the same picketers that carry a sign one day, “Abolish Capital Punishment,” also carry “Legalize Abortion” another day. When this is called to their attention, their answer is, “There is no contradiction involved.” They are right: the thesis is “condemn the innocent and free the guilty.