Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
