Innocence Quotes - Page 28

• As Bartok put it so succinctly: "Competitions are for horses." Nothing could be more barbaric that the practice or ranking artists as though they were divers or figure skaters....What one suspects is that the appetite for dividing the world into winners and losers, anointed and anonymous, is so compulsive that it feeds with special, vindictive hunger on the most elusive and ephemeral of subjects. For if music can be reduced to games of power and success, then innocence-love without profit-can be dealt a crushing blow.

  Russell Sherman

  Crush, Horse, Artist

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• Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

  Sara Shandler

  Elderly, People, Age

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• The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Sex, Hate, Ignorance

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• What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

  Klaus Nomi

  Simple, Complicated, Hard

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• Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the recent trials of O.J. Simpson, Erik and Lyle Menendez, and various defendants in preschool molestation cases have been lengthy, lawyer-dominated soap operas in which the search for truth has been subordinated to the manipulation of procedures.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Guilt, Criminals

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• [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

  May Sarton

  Age, Moments, Childlike

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

  Josh Brolin

  Perception

  "osh Brolin Talks GANGSTER SQUAD, Fascination with Gangster Culture, His Character, Working with the Incredible Cast and More During Our Set Visit". Interview with Andre Dellamorte, collider.com. December 13, 2012.

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• The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Enemy

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• Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Law, Presumption Of Innocence

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• Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Men, Innocent

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.91, Xist Publishing

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• ... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

  Mark Twain

  Wise, Stupid, Men

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• I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

  Craig Ferguson

  Past, Thinking, Looks

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• I'm Volstag and what you see is what you get. He's a bon vivant lover of life epicurean goodfellow. He's a god, which helps. He's full of life. He reminds me very much of Falstaff. There's a wonderful innocence to him and the steadfast loyalty of a big Saint Bernard dog.

  Ray Stevenson

  Loyalty, Dog, Saint

  Source: collider.com

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• When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

  David Schwimmer

  Fake, Inexperience

  Source: collider.com

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• The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest.

  Lisette Model

  Ambition, Ignorance, Wish

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• Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.

  Loretta Lux

  Children, Garden, Self

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• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Guilt, Variation

  William Saroyan (2009). “The Time of Your Life”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Humility, Knowing, Battle

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• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  W. H. Auden

  Playing Games, Class, Action

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• Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Guilty, Innocent

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• I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Loss, Vantage Point, Lost

  "A fan's eye view". Interview with Nick Hornby, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  James T. Walsh

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Berries, Calm, Quiet

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.125

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• I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

  George Will

  Space, Work Out, Mind

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• A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  Germaine Greer

  Book, Reading, Thought Provoking

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