Innocence Quotes - Page 25

• I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece-spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart.

  Dennis Lehane

  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

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• 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.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Publicity, Chance

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby from this gorgeous artwork.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Thinking, Different

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

  Neil Peart

  Reality

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• Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

  Bill Ayers

  Father, War, Destiny

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• The Seasons Difference is a suave and urbane comedy about several immense abstractions - faith, innocence, loneliness, and love.

  Orville Prescott

  Loneliness, Differences, And Love

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• I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Monsters

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Faith, Lying, Causes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.54, e-artnow

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• So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Youth, Fountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.580, Simon and Schuster

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• An alloy of innocence and arrogance, young (Ted) Williams came to Boston when it had four morning and four evening local newspapers engaged in perpetual circulation wars. He became grist for their mills, and his wars with the sportswriters brought out the worst in him, and cost him. He won two Most Valuable Player Awards and finished second four times. Several of those times he would have won had he not had such poisonous relations with the voting press.

  George Will

  Morning, War, Player

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• Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Power, Innocent

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• If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Men, Experience

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.220, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

  Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

  Beauty, Generosity, Heroism

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• Few things are more aggravating than to be forgiven when one has done no wrong.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Forgiveness, Done, Aggravating

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• In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Justice, Guilt, Today

  Poetic Justice ch. 2 (1970).

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• While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society.

  George Washington

  Christian, Religious, Men

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• Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Men, Wife, Guilt

  Sarah Moore Grimké, Mary S. Parker (1838). “Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker”, p.6

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• [On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Equality, Stories, Adam

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• It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Differences, People, Impossible

  M.F.K. Fisher (1992). “Long Ago In France: The Years In Dijon”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

  William Davenant

  Beautiful, Grief, Sorrow

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• Ignorance is not innocence.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Ignorance

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• ... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

  Catharine Beecher

  Intelligent, Innocence And Experience, Tools

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• To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Perfection, Morality

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.390

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• Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

  Jean Racine

  Rights, Law, Degrees

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• I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confident. The governor strikes me as a man seeking popularity, who lacks the independence and manhood to do right at the risk of losing popularity. Afraid of what will be said. He is prejudiced against the Irish and Democrats.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Men, Risk, Independence

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