Innocent Quotes
1253 quotes by 962 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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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie…
— Russell Baker
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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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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good…
— J. G. Ballard
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If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former…
— Honore de Balzac
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch…
— Charles Baudelaire
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No one doubts that innocent men, women and children have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria. And there's no doubt who is…
— Joe Biden
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
— William Blackstone
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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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The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the…
— Danny Boyle
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Yes, war is hell. It is awful. It involves human beings killing other human beings, sometimes innocent civilians. That is why we despise war.
— John O. Brennan
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If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
— Abdallah II
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
— Harry Browne
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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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I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less…
— Madeleine Albright
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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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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the…
— Abdallah II
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No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
— Albert Camus
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No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.
— 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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