Innocence Quotes - Page 5

• Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

  Leonard Peltier

  Lying, Voice, Guilt

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.23, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In innocence there is no strength against evil, said Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. But there is strength in it for good.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Evil, Littles, Said

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soulmate, Literature, Opinion

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Women, Lying

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.687, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Purity And Innocence

  'The Inn Album' (1875) canto 5

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• It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Purity And Innocence

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.110, BookBaby

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• Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Support, Murder

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• I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

  Susan Sontag

  Guilt, Logic, Victim

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

  Martha Stewart

  Fighting, Names, Want

  Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

  Angela Carter

  Parent, Anxiety, Soul

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply].

  Warren E. Burger

  Justice, Guilt, Criminals

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• He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

  Jared Leto

  Simple, Way, Innocent

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• The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Literature, Gullibility, Ultimate

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• Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Blood, World, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• The innocent is the person who explains nothing

  Albert Camus

  Life, Innocent, Persons

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Innocent, Unfortunate

  "Nymphes de Vaux". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1662.

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• Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

  Oscar Wilde

  Looks, Escapade

  Oscar Wilde (2009). “The Happy Prince and Other Stories”, p.84, Collector's Library

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Punishment, Guilt

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

  Anatole France

  Heart, Knowledge, Mind

  "The Literary Life". Book by Anatole France, 1888-1892.

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• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  Madame de Stael

  Quality, Noble, Genius

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Children, Women, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

  James A. Baldwin

  Eye, Reality, Long

  "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.

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• This innocence begins to weigh me down.

  Jean Racine

  "Three Plays: Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah".

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• What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Be Good

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, De Ira, II. 27, 1922.

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