Khalil Gibran Quotes

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The law is cruel.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

I sent people to the penitentiary as fast as I could, never thinking about whether they deserved it.

Let them bring me prisoners, and I’ll find them law.

They got the judges / They got the lawyers / They got the jury rolls / They got the law / They don’t come by ones. / They got the sheriffs / They got the deputies / They don’t come by twos. / They got the shotguns / They got the rope / We git the justice / In the end / And they come by tens.

There is no such thing as justice—in or out of court.

In the criminal justice community, as a judge, being tough is not enough. You have to be fair.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

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.

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

It is better to pardon the guilty than to take the lives of the innocent

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.