quotes 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.
-- Aesop -
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.
-- Agatha Christie -
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.
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How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
-- David SheffSource : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.
-- Deepak Chopra -
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Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a ***** corner.)
-- Diablo Cody -
I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.
-- Dick Cheney -
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
-- Douglas SirkSource : Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker
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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
-- Edmund WallerSource : Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219
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One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
-- Edward Coke -
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
-- Edwin Meese -
Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.
-- Eula Biss -
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Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell -
Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation.
-- G. H. HardySource : G. H. Hardy, C. P. Snow (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.74, Cambridge University Press
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Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.
-- Galt NiederhofferSource : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.228, Macmillan
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He bit the inside of his cheek, Death purring wildy. The pleasure of her touch, even one so innocent, rocked him to the core.
-- Gena Showalter -
The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.
-- George R. R. MartinSource : George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.933, Bantam
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The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.
-- George W. Bush -
People are innocent till proven otherwise. All people are.
-- George W. Bush -
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
-- Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.
-- Hans Koning -
It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.
-- Hassan Nasrallah -
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
-- Helene Cixous -
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
-- Henry James -
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.
-- Iris Murdoch -
Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with terrorists. Now, either A. Ron Paul was right. Or B. All Verizon users are terrorists.
-- Jack Hunter -
I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.
-- Jack RubySource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
-- James Boswell -
If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
-- James Mattis -
We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff MassonSource : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday
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And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.
-- Jet Black -
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.
-- John Berger -
Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away
-- John Mellencamp -
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Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
-- Jose Rizal -
Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.
-- Joseph Addison -
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The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
-- Josh Billings -
I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood
-- Judas IscariotSource : Matthew 27:4, King James Version of the Bible, quod.lib.umich.edu.
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I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.
-- Julia Child -
Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]
-- Juvenal -
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
-- Karl ShapiroSource : Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press
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I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
-- Kathy Acker -
I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.
-- Kevin McAleer -
When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged Innocent
-- Klaus BarbieSource : Statement at His Trial,
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A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty?
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To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?
-- L.A. MeyerSource : L. A. Meyer (2010). “My Bonny Light Horseman: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, in Love and War”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation.
-- Li ZhaoxingSource : "Congressman calls alleged Chinese spying 'grave'". www.cnn.com. May 16, 1999.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty
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There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
-- Louis D. Brandeis -
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
-- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva -
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We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.
-- Marie LuSource : Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin
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I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.
-- Marina and the DiamondsSource : "Marina Diamandis Mines the Future". Interview with Alex Chapman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 26, 2012.
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You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.
-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -
I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.
-- Mark Twain -
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If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,
-- Martin BashirSource : "MSNBC's Martin Bashir Outrageously Compares Rick Santorum to Mass Murderer Joseph Stalin" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. February 14, 2012.
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Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.
-- Martin Farquhar TupperSource : Martin Farquhar Tupper (1846). “Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, Originally Treated”, p.23
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Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.
-- Matt Drudge -
Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
-- Max Lucado -
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The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.
-- Mohammed HanifSource : Mohammed Hanif (2011). “A case of Exploding Mangoes”, p.8, Random House India
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Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.
-- Moses Harvey -
There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.
-- Nadeem AslamSource : Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.9, Faber & Faber
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To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
-- Nelson Algren -
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Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
-- Noam Chomsky -
We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.
-- Osama bin Laden -
She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.
-- Paolo Bacigalupi -
Americans in particular are oddly innocent in their faith that science holds explanations for everything.
-- Patricia Briggs -