Quote by Lisa Gardner

“but it seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.”

— T.H. White

“He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them…

— Will Cuppy

“He had seen how people came a cropper by giving way to impulse. It was to his judiciousness, at every turn, that he owed…

— Shirley Hazzard

“He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.”

— M.C.A. Hogarth

“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”

— James Baldwin

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“No one was good and no one over the age of ten was unscarred. Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.”

— Jeffrey Goldberg

“He was poor and foolish and people will always have a place in their hearts for the harmless.”

— Tim Winton

“I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor…

— Osamu Dazai

“Place a weapon in the hands of Greed, hatred, especially of ignorance You've created innocent deaths That wasn't neccasary”

— R.K. Cowles

“Lord, save him from those with good intentions, for they tended to leave the worst damage.”

— J. Fally