Guilty Person Quotes
- For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence… — Saint Augustine
- Every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
- It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. — Dolores Ibarruri
- Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman. — Seneca the Younger
- It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. — Thomas Jefferson
- But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty. — Michel Foucault
- If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. — Alexandre Dumas
- I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for… — Dominick Dunne
- Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to… — Robert Shapiro
- A guilty conscience never feels secure. The feeling of Guilt that overwhelmes you is the nerve of sorrow that will never let you have that… — Kev Moores
- It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire