I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence. — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. — Peter Slipper Copy Share Image
“In fact, I once imagined you loved me a little bit, if you'll excuse the presumption.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude. — David Hume Copy Share Image
A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I write in the novel's afterword that our recent wars "finish not with victory or defeat but with a calendar draw-down date… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Principle II: The presumptions of the law are creative presumptions:;: they are aimed at conditions to be brought about, and only for… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
I would challenge the statement that my scientific instincts are any less rigorous than [Richard Dawkins]. The difference is that my presumption… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Denis Healey refused to contribute an article to the 'Guardian' about his intentions, and was punished by the electorate - and then… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
In this real world of sweat and dirt, it seems to me that when a view of things is 'noble,' that ought… — William James Copy Share Image
...a human being not only can choose but... he must choose... for in this way God retains His honor while at the… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
People who think I'm gay, some part of me thinks it's wonderful. Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. I… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
“There is a presumption in favor of every existing institution. Many of these (we will suppose the majority) may be susceptible of… — David Potter Copy Share Image
In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
All my life I had lived on the presumption that there was no existence beyond... flesh, the moment of being alive... then… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image