Don Lemon Quotes

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

I have no feelings for the criminal. All my feelings lie with the victim.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

Take care that no one hates you justly.

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

If crimes have been committed it is necessary to investigate. They say that the number of victims have been exaggerated, but one case is enough. Cain slew Abel only once. Christ only once was crucified.

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught.

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

To be fair to Monica," I said, "what you did to her wasn't very nice either." "What'd I do to her?" he asked, defensive. "You know, going blind and everything." "But that's not my fault," Isaac said. "I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.

To spare the guilty is to injure the innocent.

For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.