Innocence Quotes - Page 23

• Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Giving Up, Struggle, Exercise

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky (2013). “Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading”, p.119, Harvard Business Press

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• We each begin in innocence.
  We all become guilty.

  Leonard Peltier

  Guilty

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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

  Maya Tiwari

  Personality, Sensitive, Type

  Maya Tiwari (2005). “Ayurveda: A Life of Balance : the Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types with Recipes”

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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• Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Joy, Wonder

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• Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.

  Harry Browne

  Taken, Rights, Government

  Harry Browne (2000). “The Great Libertarian Offer”, Liam Works

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

  Minor White

  Children, Mean, Eye

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• All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Art, People, Brutality

  "Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche".

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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Blessing, Giving

  'The History of Sir Charles Grandison' (1754) vol. 3, letter 32

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• He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

  Charles James

  Guilt, Trying, Levels

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• There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Battlefields

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• Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

  Jo Nesbo

  Childhood, Firsts, Facts

  "The Past Is A Foreign Country" by Jo Nasbo, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2011.

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

  Katherine Dunn

  Forgetfulness, Stamina, Sheer

  Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.150, Vintage

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• Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

  Lena Dunham

  Purity And Innocence, Survivor, Demand

  "Why Lena Dunham Spoke Out About Her Rape So Many Years After It Happened" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. December 10, 2014.

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• 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.

  Joseph Butler

  Light, Action, Virtue

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• The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Simplicity, Consciousness

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• 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

  Blood, Hands, Judging

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.38, Penguin

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

  John Barth

  World, Lions, Innocent

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• Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

  Jean Racine

  Fall, Guilt, Vices

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• Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Doors, Years, People

  Pauline Kael (1996). “Raising Kane and Other Essays”, Marion Boyars Publishers

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• Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charming naturalness and innocence about it.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  Black, Neighbors And Friends, Tradition

  Robert D. Kaplan (2014). “Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History”, p.81, Picador

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• Until Eve gave him the apple, Adam didn't even know he wasn't wearing underpants.

  Paula Yates

  Apples, Adam, Underpants

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