Innocent Quotes

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Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be left… — Thomas Pynchon
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards… — Terry Pratchett
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent. — Kathy Acker
Since I was a law student, I have been against the death penalty. It does not deter. It is severely discriminatory against minorities, especially since… — Ralph Nader
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest… — Dean Koontz
Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere — George W. Bush
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. — Charles Baudelaire
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.… — Akira Kurosawa
He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed.… — Julia Quinn
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? — William S. Burroughs
Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst… — William P. Young
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that… — Victor Hugo
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who… — Douglas Adams
There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons. — Tony Benn
But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with… — Khaled Hosseini
If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
So many vows … they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for… — George R. R. Martin
To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the… — Fulton J. Sheen
Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end.… — Tobias Wolff
Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood. — Mahatma Gandhi
as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus, from admiration of one wise and innocent child, and from a misheard remark, the process that not even Aristotle could codify was triggered. Where… — Harlan Ellison

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