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Every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. -- Dolores Ibarruri
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. -- Thomas Jefferson
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 a guilty person. -- Dominick Dunne
Every guilty person is his own hangman. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. -- Voltaire
A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it. -- Seneca
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful. -- Alexandre Dumas
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
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
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 let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. -- Robert Shapiro
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is. -- Charlotte Lennox
An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it. -- Jaron Lanier
Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available. -- Andrew Vachss
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
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour. -- Piers Anthony
If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it. -- Madhuri Dixit
I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed. -- Gary Johnson
Much of the time, the things we feel guilty about are not our issues. Another person behaves inappropriately or in some way violates our boundaries. We challenge the behavior, and the person gets angry and defensive. Then we feel guilty. -- Melody Beattie
I think having toured the world and seeing many places, I've just been blown away by how we've really scarred our home. I'm as guilty as the next person if not more so. I travel a lot. The damage we do to our planet is huge. -- James Blunt
What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years? -- Greta Van Susteren
I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery. -- Lily Allen
We will that all men know we blame not all the lords, nor all those that are about the king's person, nor all gentlemen nor yeomen, nor all men of law, nor all bishops, nor all priests, but all such as may be found guilty by just and true inquiry and by the law. -- Jack Cade
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if a black person says he thinks O.J. Simpson's guilty, other blacks will cut their eyes at him and say, 'You ought to go somewhere and sit down and shut up.' -- J. C. Watts
One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing. -- David E. Kelley
Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior. -- Tony Campolo
In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How far would I go for the woman I loved? How far would I go, and what would I do when the person then told me that they were guilty? Could I still believe in them?' So it was very personal. -- Paul Haggis
A good person will feel guilty even before a dog. -- Anton Chekhov
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
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. -- Benjamin Franklin
I feel guilty because I want to act more than I want to write songs. I'm a person who likes to transition; I like to grow. -- Ester Dean
Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed. -- Cristiane Serruya
No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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