Innocence Quote by William Davenant Download Open image “Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.” — William Davenant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Innocence Knows Law
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share
Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
You've had a whole lot of experience, but everything is also radically new at each moment, and you have to bring a kind of… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Let us not subside into a single mandatory way of thinking or feeling, immersed by a spirit of self-gratification. But let’s dig into the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an… — Brad Goreski Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called… — William Golding Copy Share Image
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