Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents… — Norman Lamm Copy Share Image
The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a… — Romare Bearden Copy Share Image
“You may give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“How great inexperience and innocence is. On the authority of their parents they go to a place where they could meet their… — Adalbert Stifter Copy Share Image
“Deanna Durbin's movies are about innocence and sweetness. They're from a different time and a different place. Outside the movie house, there… — Jeanine Basinger Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
“I still don't know which way I would teach you. I was once so free and innocent. I too laughed for no… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions.… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
“You're right about it all. I wanted you. The moment I found out what you were, I wanted you like a prize… — Elise Kova Copy Share Image
“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I've kept alive my childlike innocence. I don't let anything or anyone dampen my zest for life. Now, that's very important. — Mumtaz Copy Share Image
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I prefer to have all of this apparatus - historical, literary, critical - and then, beyond initial innocence and naiveté, to try… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm of childhood it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle… — Christopher Knight Copy Share Image
When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I… — Howard Ikemoto Copy Share Image
This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down.… — Marguerite Oswald Copy Share Image
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence. — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man's flesh… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
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