Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent. — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“You can’t be a great human being when you enjoy killing innocent and helpless animals with a gun just for fun.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. — John Updike Copy Share Image
If you're a blacksmith, probably the proudest day of your life is when you get your first anvil. How innocent you are,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics,… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
“The innocent put their faith into their government, whereas the smart do their own research and adopt protective lifestyle changes based on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any question that someday somebody who is innocent will be executed in this country again. — Bill McCollum Copy Share Image
I feel the grandparent-grandchild relationship is one of the most innocent and selfless ones. It is all about pure love and affection. — Mohan Joshi Copy Share Image
I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight.… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to… — Plato Copy Share Image
Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ron Paul warned everyone that the Patriot Act could be used against innocent American citizens. His critics said he was siding with… — Jack Hunter Copy Share Image
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“I know Jojo is innocent because I can read it in the unmarked swell of him: his smooth face, ripe with baby… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year;… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Stay innocent as a child, your life will fly by without you knowing it — Naquitta Faith Copy Share Image
“A fact is innocent until someone wants it; then it become intelligence.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years? — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room. — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
