Condemn Quote by Voltaire

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

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…

— Robert Shapiro

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible…

— Sue Grafton

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

— Ingrid Newkirk

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the…

— R.J. Rushdoony

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.

— Justinian I

“Nobody is entirely satisfied with the condition in which he or she lives: we often have the impression that these conditions are getting worse.…

— Tzvetan Todorov

“It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent).”

— Anonymous

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal…

— Dominick Dunne

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

As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they…

— Aristotle