Innocence Quotes
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People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that
Lucille Clifton
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
John Milton -
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Oscar Wilde -
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe -
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Ward Churchill -
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Ward Churchill -
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
Samuel Butler
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
Natalie Portman -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
William Cowper -
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Ouida -
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
Eartha Kitt -
Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
Vincent Bugliosi
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
Randi Weingarten -
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.
Talulah Riley -
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer -
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer -
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
Kailash Satyarthi -
Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.
Marianne Williamson -
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
Idina Menzel