Innocent Quotes

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately. — Alec Baldwin
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
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
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
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
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. — William Blackstone
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. — Elizabeth Bowen
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
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
If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future. — Abdallah II
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
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
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
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
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
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. — Albert Camus
No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people. — 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

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