Book quotes Quote by Buffy Andrews

“Someone must step up and fight for the innocent victims, for those who could not protect themselves. Someone must enact justice and prevent others…

— Kel Kade

“Innocents should never be forced to pay for the acts of others.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“That is the problem with revenge - you wind up destroying the innocent as well as the guilty.”

— Cassandra Clare

“You can put a man on trial, but you can't make the guilty pay.”

— Shinedown

“Who tarnishes, assaults, threatens, hates the spirit of man is guilty of crime.”

— Christina Stead

“You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, Praise the eternal justice of man!”

— Mary Shelley

“He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.”

— James Dashner

“It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people? It costs everything you are.”

— Suzanne Collins

“He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.”

— Hilary Mantel

“Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we've gotten more into…

— Whoopi Goldberg

“This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense…

— William Landay

“Such verdicts are crimes against truth. The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.”

— Jack London