Guilty Person Quotes

• Cada culpable es su propio verdugo.

  Séneca el Joven

  Filosófico, Castigo, Culpa

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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• Es más peligroso que incluso un culpable sea castigado sin las formas de la ley a que escape.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ley, Culpa, Presidente

  Thomas Jefferson Henry Augustine Washington (1853). "Los escritos de Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont", p.399

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• La sospecha siempre acecha a la mente culpable.

  William Shakespeare

  Mentira, Memorable, Mente

  Enrique VI, Parte 3' (1592) acto 5, esc. 6, l. 11

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• If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

  Alejandro Dumas

  Wish, Might, Firsts

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

  Maimónides

  Innocent, Capital Punishment, Thousand

  "Sefer Hamitzvot". Book by Maimonides,

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• It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go.

  Dolores Ibarruri

  Inspirational, Hundred, Persons

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• But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

  Michel Foucault

  Punishment, Target, Persons

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.108, Vintage

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• For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

  Saint Augustine

  Suicide, Suicidal, Hands

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9332, Aeterna Press

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• Que es mejor que 100 Personas culpables escapen a que una Persona inocente sufra, es una Máxima que ha sido larga y generalmente aprobada.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Innocent Person, Justice, Long

  Carta a Benjamin Vaughan, 14 mar. 1785

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• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Séneca el Joven

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

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• En cuanto al adulterio, que se considere vergonzoso, en general, que un hombre o una mujer sean infieles de cualquier modo cuando están casados y se llaman marido y mujer. Si durante el tiempo de la procreación ocurriera algo semejante, que la persona culpable sea castigada con la pérdida de privilegios en proporción a la ofensa.

  Aristotle

  Hijos, Marido, Pérdida

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.192, Cambridge University Press

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