Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's… — Amy Adams Copy Share Image
A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?” — Suzanne Hayes Copy Share Image
Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days, and I kept them… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep... Just… — John Green Copy Share Image
Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm speaking for everyone who has ever been incarcerated, especially those who are innocent or have been overly charged. — Isaac Wright Jr Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
