Anne Spencer Quotes
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
Anne Spencer
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Oscar Wilde
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Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.
Walt Disney
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There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier's sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
Philip Caputo
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If I want to make the first move, I want to go after something in my life, I should be able to do that without shame, guilt, or blame.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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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.
Immanuel Kant
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
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Society is the true sphere of human virtue. In social, active life, difficulties will perpetually be met with; restraints of many kinds will be necessary; and studying to behave right in respect of these is a discipline of the human heart, useful to others, and improving to itself. Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.
Elizabeth Carter
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If I say something honestly, generally, I am being completely honest and don't tell me I am lying. It drives me crazy to be told I set up my pictures. How does it benefit me to lie? I guess they are afraid to believe it and are afraid to look at it.
Nan Goldin
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In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Madame de Stael
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Today's action means the core principle of protecting women's health as guaranteed by Roe v. Wade is in clear and present danger.
Nancy Keenan
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Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
Anne Spencer