Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Healthy choices thread through every aspect of life.

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography.

If you are ready to be intimate, you will encourage the other person also to be intimate. Your unpretentious simplicity will allow the other also to enjoy simplicity, innocence, trust, love, openness.

I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.

I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.