Best 589 quotes in «innocence quotes» category

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

To dread no eye and to suspect no tongue is the great prerogative of innocence--an exemption granted only to invariable virtue.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.