Accusatorial System Quotes & Sayings

Have you found a stairs to the light? The first thing you must do is to inform others so that you can all together go to the light! Without others, even the place where light exists will be dark! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Convictions following the admission into evidence of confessions which are involuntary, i.e., the product of coercion, either physical or psychological, cannot stand. This is so not because such confessions are unlikely to be true but because the methods used to extract them offend an underlying principle in the enforcement of our criminal law: that ours is an accusatorial and not an inquisitorial system a system in which the State must establish guilt by evidence independently and freely secured and may not by coercion prove its charges against an accused out of his own mouth. — Felix Frankfurter

Baseball can have its perfect dimensions, its undeniable drama, but hockey, for all its wrongs, still has the potential to deliver a momentary, flashing magic that is found in no other game we play. — Roy MacGregor

A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house. — Caroline Leavitt

It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts. — Niels Arden Oplev

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young. — Gerald R. Ford

But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart. — Beth Henley

All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless — Rachel Cohn

They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke — Jen Campbell

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary. — David Lodge

I moved to Chicago when I was 28, and I wasn't completely idealistic about going to Second City and making a living from comedy, but I knew it would be great for the resume. — Allison Tolman