Innocence Quotes

777 quotes by 621 authors

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. — Jean Baudrillard
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
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone
Every harlot was a virgin once. — William Blake
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted. — Anita Brookner
Ignorance is not innocence but sin. — Robert Browning
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
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
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. — Samuel Butler
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
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
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
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
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
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
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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