Top 4 Guilty Person Quotes

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

Wish, Might, Guilty Person

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

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

Guilty Person, Innocent, Capital Punishment

"Sefer Hamitzvot". Book by Maimonides,

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

Inspirational, Guilty Person, Hundred

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.

Punishment, Target, Guilty Person

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

Guilty Person Quotes