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Quotes About Guilty

Innocence is not a legal term. No one is ever found innocent in a court of law.
~ Michael Connelly
In the law of innocence, for every man not guilty of a crime, there is a man out there who is. And to prove true innocence, the guilty man must be found and exposed to the world.
~ Michael Connelly
The only way to prove I didn't do it is to prove who did," I said. "That's the law of innocence.
~ Michael Connelly
Innocence is not a legal term. No one is ever found innocent in a court of law. No one is ever exonerated by the verdict of a jury. The justice system can only deliver a verdict of guilty or not guilty. Nothing else, nothing more.
~ Michael Connelly
Innocence is not a legal term.
~ Michael Connelly
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
~ Robert Browning
Why go from the individual to the entire race, from the singular to the group, from the guilty to the innocent? We know why. That is how racism works. That is racism in action.
~ David Olusoga
Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.
~ Adam Pascal
I like really bad T.V.; it's a problem. Love me some reality.
~ Britt Robertson
I have terrible taste in things: music, movies, TV shows. I love all the guilty pleasures: Bravo, Real Housewives.
~ Grace Helbig
The intimacy of love absolves us of our guilty separateness.
~ Mason Cooley
Flynn told associates that his legal bills were astronomical, as were his son's, who was also being investigated. A one-count guilty plea for lying seemed the only way out. His statement said, "I accept full responsibility for my actions," and said he now had an "agreement to cooperate." He denied that he had committed "treason," an apparent denial that he had colluded with the Russians.
~ Bob Woodward
This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver.
~ Boris Pasternak
There was a tank of special flounder about fifteen feet away from the octopus tank," he said. The fish were part of a study. But to the researchers' dismay, the flounder started disappearing, one by one. One day they caught the culprit red-handed. The octopus had been slipping out of her tank and eating the flounder! When the octopus was discovered, Scott said, "she gave a guilty, sideways look and slithered away.
~ Sy Montgomery
Even she agreed that a woman had a right to chocolate.
~ Sylvia Day
The mere punishment of the defendants, or even thousands of others equally guilty, can never redress the terrible injuries which the Nazis visited on these unfortunate peoples. For them it is far more important that these incredible events be established by clear and public proof, so that no one can ever doubt that they were fact and not fable.
~ Telford Taylor
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
~ Justinian I
the guilty are innocent, only the innocent can commit crimes.
~ K.J. Parker
There was no ladylike behavior when it came to eating fresh homemade chocolate chip cookies. " - Kailin Gow, Saving You Saving Me (Book 1 of the You & Me Trilogy)
~ Kailin Gow
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty.
~ Jon Krakauer
Military investigations are designed not to find anyone guilty. And you can't investigate up the chain of command, which is a huge impediment.
~ Jon Krakauer
There will always be people who irritate you, inside and outside of any fanbase. That's not a fault of the fanbase, it's a fault of people, and we're all guilty.
~ Scott Cawthon
First as a peace activist in the late '60s, then as a political activist in the '70s, and then in joining the armed clandestine resistance movement that was developing in the '80s, I am guilty of revolutionary and anti-imperialist resistance.
~ Susan Rosenberg
I didn't say Tvlakv isn't a bastard. He's just a likable bastard." He hesitated, then grimaced. "Those are the worst kind. When you kill them, you end up feeling guilty for it.
~ Brandon Sanderson