George Orwell Quotes

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

In evaluating any given claim of misconduct, we will be ill served in the long run if we abandon the presumption of innocence and fairness, tempting though it may be. We must always remember that it is when passions are most inflamed that fairness is most in jeopardy.

There is a presumption of innocence in American law that means that you cannot consider making someone guilty until all the evidence is in the the procedures are completed.

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

In our justice system, everyone who is charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless proven guilty. It should go without saying that people who are not charged with a crime also are presumed innocent.

In Nigeria they convict by law, not by the truth

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.

Ares gives his verdict without witnesses.

Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.

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.

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance to let anybody flunk the test.

It's hard to be a saint in the city.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

We will ultimately be judged by how we react in times of trouble and how we care for the least among us.

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

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

The first theme that every audience can get easily everywhere in the world is the theme of judgment. You are constantly judging if this character is doing something wrong or right, or the other character is doing something right or wrong.

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

Of course you got rights, the law's on your side, but sometimes the law takes a long time to kick in and so it gets put in the hands of us poor suckers on duty. You get my drift?