Innocence Quotes
777 quotes by 621 authors
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
— Jean Baudrillard
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are…
— Jean Baudrillard
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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Every harlot was a virgin once.
— William Blake
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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
— Anita Brookner
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
— Robert Browning
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Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who…
— Tammy Bruce
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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
— George W. Bush
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
— Samuel Butler
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America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no…
— Paula Abdul
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
— Albert Camus
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To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two…
— Albert Camus
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The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking…
— Robert Casey
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I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or…
— Nick Cave
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Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put…
— Agatha Christie
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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