George Orwell Quotes

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

While not explicitly articulated in the Constitution, the presumption of innocence has, through Supreme Court opinions, become a fundamental tenet of our criminal-justice system, and rightly so.

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.

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

Pity for the guilty is treason to 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

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

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

He who hates vice hates men.

We have to be careful about applying criminal labels to people until we're very sure.

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others.

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

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

Those who are innocent today may be guilty tomorrow.

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.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

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.

You are innocent until proven guilty. And if folks have come forward, whether it is judge Roy Moore or whether it is anyone else, and they have evidence to convict someone of a crime, then they should go through the legal process and do so.

There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

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

Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.