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  • No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

    Death   Suicide   Writing  
    Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.70, Penguin
  • The questions they ask usually in the polls is: do you support the President's attempt to overthrow the government of Saddam Hussein? ... If you ask a question like: do you support the dropping of powerful explosives upon the heads of totally innocent men, women and children, demolishing their homes and their schools and their hospitals, are you in favour of that? That would change the answers, I think, quite a bit.

    "Peace activist comments on media coverage of the war". Interview with John HIghfield, www.abc.net.au. March 24, 2003.
  • Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation
  • Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.80, Cosimo, Inc.
  • There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

    Adventure   Men   Knights  
    Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.138
  • In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

    Men   Innocent Man   Jail  
  • I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

    "Why the Deadwood Guy Doesn't Care if NBC's Kings Makes Him More Famous". Interview with Jake Halpern, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2009.
  • An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

    Fall   Angel   Godly  
    "Tar Baby". Book by Toni Morrison, 1981.
  • My great crime wasn't refusing to represent an innocent man; my great crime was imagining that there was some path to racial justice that did not include those we view as 'guilty'.

  • We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

    "Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service?" by Gloria Feldt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.
  • After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

    Fate   Sacrifice   Men  
    Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK
  • There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

    Michael Connelly (2011). “The Lincoln Lawyer Novels: The Lincoln Lawyer, The Brass Verdict, The Reversal”, Little, Brown
  • If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!

  • Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?

  • The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.

    R. C. Sproul (2010). “Classic Teachings on the Nature of God”, p.89, Hendrickson Publishers
  • Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

    Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011
  • Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.

  • It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

    "Big Bubba Bad Ass Enters the 2012 Race" By Linda R. Monk, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2011.
  • While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  • Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

    "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 9, 2002.
  • I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

    Morning   Sleep   Men  
  • It's easier to keep your stuff then it is to expose it, because some people don't get it. At the cross, at the feet of Jesus, there were some people who said, "Good! I'm glad that you're dead." Then there were some that were crying and saying, "Why are you doing this to this innocent man?" It is not easy to do.

  • Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

  • Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world.

    Children   Suicidal   Men  
    "'New Reagan' ready for star role" by Dan Glaister, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.
  • Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

    CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122
  • No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in Syria: the Syrian regime.

    "Military strikes on Syria ‘as early as Thursday,’ US officials say". "NBC News", www.nbcnews.com. August 27, 2013.
  • Essentially the Succubus is a mythical figure - who used to come in and cause trouble with innocent men.

  • Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

    Joseph Addison (1872). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.443
  • It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

  • A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

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