Brent Weeks Quotes

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

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.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

There are more important things than finding the murderer. And justice is a fine word, but it is sometimes difficult to say exactly what one means by it. In my opinion, the important thing is to clear the innocent. - Hercule Poirot

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

The goal is justice, not executions. We all want to make sure the process is fair and that the right person is punished. These recommendations are essential to that goal.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

No Man ought to be looked upon as guilty, before he has received his judicial Sentence; nor can the Laws deprive him of their Protection, before it is proved that he has forfeited all Right to it.

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

One would much rather that twenty guilty persons should escape the punishment of death, than that one innocent person should be condemned and suffer capitally.

It is better to risk sparing a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

I believe that everybody is entitled to a presumption of innocence.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

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.

Justice is a fading light.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

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

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.