In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are…

— Anton Chekhov

“Farragut's first visitor was his wife. He was raking leaves in yard Y when the PA said that 734-508-32 had a visitor. He jogged…

— John Cheever

I've been a biker, I've been a convict, I've been a husband, father, and son.

— Duane Chapman

“Brother, these last two months I've found in myself a new man. A new man has risen up in me. He was hidden in…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the…

— Ross Cheit

I'm enormously proud of being the ancestor of a convict. That's mad, isn't it, but I really am.

— Anne Reid

“Every prisoner knows perfectly that he is a convict and a reprobate, and knows the distance which separates him from his superiors; but neither…

— Dostoieffsky

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

— Jim DeMint

“The most honest man I bet I’ve ever known, I and met him in prison.” “The nicest woman I ever knew, and she took…

— Cara McKenna

I'm the only convict who couldn't get into Australia.

— Jim Goad

“Of course, 85 per cent won’t be enough by itself to convict him, but it makes him someone you want to take seriously.”

— S.J. Bolton

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better…

— Robert Shapiro

“They even convict and execute the dead.”

— Julie Berry

What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal,…

— Asif Ali Zardari

“You can almost define a convict as one who lacks precisely the kind of wisdom and self-control necessary to derive long-term advantage from short-term…

— Stephen Fry