Ethics Quote by William Blackstone Download Open image “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.” — William Blackstone ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ethics Fairness Guilty Guilty person Innocence Innocent Justice Suffering Ten
In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. — Dolores Ibarruri Copy Share Image
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty. — Ian McShane Copy Share Image
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures.. are found… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights. — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things. — Syd Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience. — Guy de Rothschild Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
