Crime Quote by Juvenal

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

— Juvenal

He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

— Seneca the Younger

Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that…

— Juvenal

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

— Livy

“He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public…

— Saint Augustine

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

— Publilius Syrus

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

— Albert Camus

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

— Vittorio Alfieri

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero