Innocent Man Quotes

26 quotes by 26 authors

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs. — Garrison Keillor
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. — Khalil Gibran
If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man! — Gorilla Monsoon
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul… — Toni Morrison
It takes balls to execute an innocent man. — Rick Perry
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at… — Jim Garrison
There is no client as scary as an innocent man. — Michael Connelly
My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did… — Michelle Alexander
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of… — Norman Lamm
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him. — Charles Dickens
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation. — Richard Jewell
The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But… — Jim Cymbala
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. — Benjamin Franklin
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
In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail. — Philip K. Dick
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. — Ian McShane
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing… — Mahatma Gandhi
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. — Kin Hubbard
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
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit… — John Grisham

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