Innocent Quotes

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. — Daniel Defoe
I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report.… — George Carlin
Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one… — Thomas Jefferson
God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the… — Ronald Reagan
The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man… — Thomas de Quincey
I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage… — Mike Tyson
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void. — Glen Duncan
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
If you find a saint who has no sense of humour, then he is not a saint at all. Impossible. His very seriousness says that… — Rajneesh
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of… — Yukio Mishima
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. — Frederick The Great
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a… — Thomas Jefferson
But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold… — Robert Frost
We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent. — Archibald MacLeish
Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is… — Arthur Miller
Whether our task is fighting poverty, stemming the spread of disease or saving innocent lives from mass murder, we have seen that we cannot succeed… — Kofi Annan
The study of mathematics is, if an unprofitable, a perfectly harmless and innocent occupation. — G. H. Hardy
Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the… — Terry Brooks
Meditation is to attain to a no-mindness, to a state of no-thought. In that opening of no-thought, in that kind of space, suddenly you become… — Rajneesh
The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one… — Tim Field
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. — Khalil Gibran
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice… — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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