Guilty Person Quotes

• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Guilt, President

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1853). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.399

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• Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Memorable, Mind

  'Henry VI, Part 3' (1592) act 5, sc. 6, l. 11

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• If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Wish, Might, Firsts

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

  Maimonides

  Innocent, Capital Punishment, Thousand

  "Sefer Hamitzvot". Book by Maimonides,

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• It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

  Dolores Ibarruri

  Inspirational, Hundred, Persons

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• 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

  Punishment, Target, Persons

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.108, Vintage

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• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9332, Aeterna Press

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• 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

  Innocent Person, Justice, Long

  Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785

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• 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

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense.

  Aristotle

  Children, Husband, Loss

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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