Innocent Quotes
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Our Constitution requires that the accused be presumed innocent before trial, thus granting all citizens the right to a bail hearing, where the accused has the opportunity to be represented by counsel, present evidence, and cross-examine witnesses.
Kevin Mitnick
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The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.
Thomas Sowell
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It is not enough that we have a guilty defendant. We must have an innocent system as well.
John Ashcroft
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And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
Albert Camus
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
Yann Martel
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I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.
Steve Martin
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At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path, but the loveliness of this moment was as real as wars and plagues and heartbreak. Pleasure and beauty are as valid as pain and ugliness and when I am fortunate enough to enjoy the former, I do so.
Carolyn Hart
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Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.
Eula Biss
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Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
Neil Jordan
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She is sloppy, careless, and have many flaws here and there, but she is so honest and innocent like she's still a kid.
Um Ki-joon
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The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats
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I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.
Michael Eric Dyson
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You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
Andy Roddick
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
Albert Camus
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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?
Robert Frost
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He who wrongs the innocent must bear the fruit of his act, like dust flung against the wind.
Gautama Buddha
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December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight. More and more he stares into the night, Becoming less and less concerned with ends, Emblem of the innocent as sage Restored to wonder by what he must yield.
Nick Gordon
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First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.
Milos Forman
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I've always been so uninterested in playing any kind of archetype of some pure, innocent, virginal woman. I just don't believe it.
Vanessa Kirby
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But who would dare condemn me in this world with no judges, where no one is innocent!
Albert Camus
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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.
Nathan Englander
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The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.
Richard Jenkins