Innocent Man Quotes

• Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?

  Ma-Roo

  Selfish, Greed, Wish

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• It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Criminals, Innocent

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• In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Jail, Criminals

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• 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

  Jobs, Men, Justice

  Sen. Klobuchar Questions Judge Sotomayor at Supreme Court Nomination Hearings, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2009.

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• 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

  Men, Compassion, Justice

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Words Of Wisdom, May

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

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• 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

  Men, Names, Giving

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• 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

  Men, Example, Citizens

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• No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

  Garrison Keillor

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.70, Penguin

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• 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 is not equipped to survive.

  John Grisham

  Men, Serial Killer, Killers

  John Grisham (2010). “The Confession”, p.104, Random House

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• Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspiration, Men, Political

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.14, Indiana University Press

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• Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.

  Daniel Abraham

  Men, Games, Judging

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• The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own.

  William Rawle

  Men, Trials, May

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• If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!

  Gorilla Monsoon

  Wrestling, Men, Singers

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• There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

  Michael Connelly

  Men, Scary, Guilt

  Michael Connelly (2011). “The Lincoln Lawyer Novels: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal”, Little, Brown

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• There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Law, Guilt

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

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• It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

  Rick Perry

  Men, Balls, Innocent

  "Big Bubba Bad Ass Enters the 2012 Race" By Linda R. Monk, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2011.

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• 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 myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

  Jim Garrison

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Years, Understanding

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• Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Inequality, Subjects

  Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.443

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• I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Views, Justice

  "He Hanged Them High: An Authentic Account of the Fanatical Judge Who Hanged Eighty-Eight Men". Book by Homer Croy, p. 218, 1952.

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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Fate, Sacrifice, Men

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

  Ian McShane

  Men, Thinking, Sides

  "Why the Deadwood Guy Doesn't Care if NBC's Kings Makes Him More Famous". Interview with Jake Halpern, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2009.

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• When you have airplanes with precision weapons, striking hospitals in Aleppo and slaughtering innocent men, women and children, you're committing a war crime. So we need more sanctions against Russia. We should not relax them.

  John McCain

  Children, War, Airplane

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

  William Blum

  Children, Powerful, Home

  "Peace activist comments on media coverage of the war". Interview with John HIghfield, www.abc.net.au. March 24, 2003.

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