Guilty Quotes - page 27

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted. (Alan Dershowitz)
If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not. View quote
Elie Wiesel
But Virtue will follow fearless wherever destiny summons her. It will be a reproach to the gods, that they have made even me guilty. View quote
Lucan
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. View quote
Wesley Snipes
Aristocrats n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Any public committee man who tries to pack the moral cards in the interest of his own notions is guilty of corruption and impertinence. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death, but oh, thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation that impelled her to the crime! View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Well, the clandestine aspect is that, clearly, the ability to influence the Congress--that's a clandestine activity, a covert activity. You know to some extent, the idea that the Holocaust Museum here in our country is another great ability to somehow make people feel guilty about being the people who did the most to try to end the Holocaust. I find--I just find the whole debate in the United States unbearably restricted with the inability to factually discuss what goes on between our two countries. (Michael Scheuer)
To punish the guilty adequately exceeds the power of any civilised man; for the atrocities which have been committed are such as to be imagined and perpetrated only by demons sallying forth from the lowest depths of hell. View quote
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. View quote
Juvenal
Peace visits not the guilty mind. View quote
Juvenal
The soldiers who are accused of committing these atrocities are, of course, responsible for their own actions and if found guilty, must be severely and appropriately punished. But they are not the ones primarily responsible for the disgrace that has been brought upon the United States of America. View quote
Al Gore
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show. View quote
M. Ward
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself Miserable is he who slights that witness. View quote
Seneca
Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression. View quote
Robert Nozick
When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like. View quote
Joseph Addison
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes. View quote
George W. Bush
I do kind of aspire to do comedy that appeals to a wide range of audiences and doesn't divide people. I never want to do material that makes people laugh at the expense of making other people feel bad - not to say I'm not guilty of that at times. ... I try and make humor out of the really important issues of the day, like Hot Pockets and elevators and not wanting to get out of bed. (Jim Gaffigan)
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him. View quote
Neil Gaiman
It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use. The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air. View quote
James Lovelock
Every time they say that what's happening in the country is... Stalin's fault. It's the moral of every speech: Stalin's guilty, it was Stalin, Stalin, Stalin, everyone against him. But Stalin died 35 years ago! 35 years! What does that have to do with today's troubles? View quote
Lazar Kaganovich
Few are guilty, but all are responsible. View quote
Abraham Joshua Heschel