Guilty Man Quotes
- It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted. — Livy
- The great principle of Justice: prevent crime rather than punish it. All that is needed to execute a guilty man is a firing squad or… — Augusto Roa Bastos
- This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted. — Juvenal
- Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public… — Ulysses S. Grant
- By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted. — Juvenal
- I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product… — Albert Einstein
- A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen. — Jean de la Bruyere
- I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. — Ian McShane
- No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man. — Louisa May Alcott
- My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. — Sonia Sotomayor
- It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire
- It is possible to pay another man's debts on his behalf, but it is not possible to make a guilty man innocent by suffering in… — Carl Lofmark