Guilt Assumption Quotes

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

These people did their duty; they acted on my orders, so they are not guilty of anything. I accept their guilt myself. Try me.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

I was very struck by the fact that Colin Powell said he would produce evidence and then never produced it. Then Tony Blair produced a document of seventy paragraphs, but only the last nine referred to the World Trade Center, and they were not convincing. So we have a little problem here: If they're guilty, where is the evidence? And if we can't hear the evidence, why are we going to war?

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

The point is, folks, for people on the left - and I don't care what kind of clothes they wear, or where they live, people on the left, America is guilty. And there is not a set of facts in the world that's gonna change it. There's not a set of facts in the world that's gonna change anybody's mind.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

Having spent the greater part of my life under a Communist dictatorship, I am very familiar with the Bolshevik mentality according to which an author in general, and an eminent author in particular, is always guilty, and must be punished accordingly.

Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

Pardons are risky …. They inevitably create at least some perception that there's some guilt. Why pardon if somebody isn't going to ultimately get convicted?

Men and women wonder if merely walking or driving justifies being followed, stopped, or questioned. This practice and the presumption of guilt so often associated with people of color must come to an end.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

Daesh members wear shoes. Does this mean everybody who wears shoes is Daesh?