Convicts Quotes - Page 4

• We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The FBI with its unlimited resources has done everything it possibly can to keep me in prison.

  Leonard Peltier

  Years, Done, Pieces

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.

  Marcus Eremita

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

  Duane Chapman

  Kings, Black, Half

  "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

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• Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

  Johnnie Cochran

  People, Black, Jury

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• I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Evil, Burning

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• He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.

  Saint Basil

  Magic, Sorcery, Penance

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• Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Victory, Liberty, Gains

  "The Task of Maintaining Our Liberties: The Role of the Judiciary". American Bar Association Journal, Volume 39, No. 11, p. 964, www.jstor.org. November 1953.

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• If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.

  Theodor Adorno

  Philosophy, Acquiescence, Way

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.22, Univ of California Press

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• This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

  Chris Asplen

  Guilty, Innocent, Ability

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• David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).

  David Cannadine

  Holocaust, Double Standard, Documentaries

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.224, Yale University Press

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• The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

  Bill Vaughan

  Differences, Long, People

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• Prisons where people can't even work is the worst punishment you can think of. And I don't think we should put all convicts in such facilities where people are deprived of their freedom.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Punishment, People

  "Putin speaks out on Ukraine, Crimea and US relations with French media". Interview with Gilles Bouleau and Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, www.rt.com. June 5, 2014.

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• What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

  Karl Kraus

  Beautiful, Freedom, People

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Easter, Nice, Eggs

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• And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.

  Enoch

  Flesh, Judgment, Holy

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• In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

  Merle Haggard

  America, Prison, 1960s

  Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.salon.com. November 14, 2000.

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• God's Word instructs us, teaches us, guides us, encourages us, convicts us, and helps conform us to the image of Christ.

  Craig Groeschel

  Helping, Christ, Guides

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

  Edmund Burke

  Remember, Corruption, Accusation

  Edmund Burke (2015). “A Letter On the Affairs of America”, p.43, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

  Earl Warren

  Law, Police, Feelings

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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• Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Atheist, Religion, Criminals

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• 40% of homicides go unsolved. You know, it's not a very good record. And, also, 95% of convictions in America come from plea bargaining, which is often coerced. It's like we have the worst of both worlds. We don't convict the guilty enough, and we coerce the innocent too much.

  Bill Maher

  America, Records, World

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• What can I do if everyone from the president to a junior bureaucrat is dying to convict me. If I am such a criminal, what was I doing outside jail before my marriage to Benazir?

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Jail, Dying, President

  "Asif Zardari: A Man With an Incredibly Attractive Personality". Interview with Arun Chacko, www.indiatoday.in. May 15, 1991.

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• Unlike those theists who at least pay lip service to science and scientific method, Johnson is out to convict science of fraud in the court of public opinion.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Scary, Public Opinion, Pay

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Long, Twenties, Levels

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• It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

  Epictetus

  Advice, Upbraid, Erring

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