William Davenant Quotes

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

There is no sin but ignorance.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Ignorance is not innocence.

Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.

When I was initially charged I still thought I was not guilty because I had followed the rules.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

The passions of men are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions until they know that a law forbids them, which till laws be made, they cannot know.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

If I do bad, shoot me.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.