“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
Susan Sontag
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.”
Charles James Fox
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.”
William Saroyan
“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis
