It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Lastly, I accuse the first court-martial of having violated the law by condemning an accused person on one document kept secret, and… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win… — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
“It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent).” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nobody is entirely satisfied with the condition in which he or she lives: we often have the impression that these conditions are… — Tzvetan Todorov Copy Share Image
A guilty conscience never feels secure. The feeling of Guilt that overwhelmes you is the nerve of sorrow that will never let… — Kev Moores Copy Share Image
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it… — Robert Shapiro Copy Share Image
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. — Dolores Ibarruri Copy Share Image
“How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permitted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The best way a writer can find to keep himself going is to live off his (or her) spouse. The trouble is… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“[Quatelet’s first claim to catch attention] was that since (as he believed he had shown) there is a ‘law’ governing the amount… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“An accused murderer might call upon the support of twelve men to swear his or her innocence, similar to what we consider… — Njord Kane Copy Share Image
