Quotes and Sayings About Innocent
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If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.
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But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing
-- Albert Camus -
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
-- Albert Camus -
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A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
-- Alwin Nikolais -
Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
-- Alwin Nikolais -
I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back
-- Amanda KnoxSource : "Amanda Knox on retrial: 'Everything's at stake'" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. September 20, 2013.
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I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.
-- Anna Chancellor -
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More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
-- Anthony AndersonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
-- Anthony AndersonSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
-- Ayn RandSource : "Faith Of The Fallen". Book by Terry Goodkind, August 22, 2000.
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Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
-- Azar Nafisi -
It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
-- Bianca Jagger -
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It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die
-- Brent Weeks -
In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident .
-- Bruce Sterling -
I can’t imagine it now, but I must’ve been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don’t just get itself born bad, do it?
-- Charles de Lint -
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When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
-- Charlotte LennoxSource : Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97
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This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.
-- Chris Asplen -
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
-- Curtis LeMay -
Dogs are us, only innocent.
-- Cynthia HeimelSource : Cynthia Heimel (2004). “Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye”
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reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.
-- Dana Perino -
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
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Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.†Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere
-- Dashiell Hammett -
There are very few innocent sentences in writing.
-- David Foster Wallace -
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A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.
-- David M. Raup -
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
-- David R. BrowerSource : "The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century". Book by Ronald Bailey, reason.com. July 21, 2015.