Innocence Quotes - Page 8

• I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was routinely molested by older cousins and their friends. See, my innocence was taken away and I became mature at one bloody incident. I believe I never had a childhood. I grew up as an elderly person. And that's what my femininity brought upon me. Of course, in a patriarchal society, hijras' bodies are thought of as toys.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Cousin, Taken, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't think that on a daily basis, people need to be so concerned with others think. When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre. I never lost that I think part of that is growing up gay and part is growing up overweight. You never lose that, and I never want to lose touch with that whimsy, that sense of innocence. I also love the reaction it elicits in people. I like that it makes other people happy.

  Brad Goreski

  Growing Up, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Beautiful, Children, Kids

  Source: wwd.com

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• When the government is looking for a criminal in the crowd, it construes people in terms of culpability: innocence or guilt. When a corporation uses emotion recognition software to gauge your reaction to a carton of milk, it construes your body as a consumer. So there are these different modes of seeing what it is to be human, which have important implications for social classification, stereotyping, and racial profiling.

  Nicole Miller

  People, Guilt, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

  Paula Abdul

  Kids, America, Training

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• More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

  Anthony Anderson

  Guilty, Innocent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

  Alec Baldwin

  Home, Enemy, Citizens

  "Will They Go to Court?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

  William Blackstone

  Justice, Suffering, Ethics

  "Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries".

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• Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

  Anita Brookner

  Writing, Attention, States

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• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  Tammy Bruce

  Winning, Trials, Guilty

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.264, Crown Forum

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• To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Law, Two

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

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• I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Rocks, Years

  "I saw music could be a beautiful, evil thing, while my parents shifted uncomfortably" by Nick Cave, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Charming, Possibility

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• I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

  Pierre Corneille

  Imagine, Suspicion, Know How

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• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

  William Cowper

  Innocent, Uncomfortable, Pillow

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• An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

  DMX

  Presumption Of Innocence, Important, Fundamentals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

  Puff Daddy

  Guilty, Truth Is, Innocent

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• How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Children, Family Values

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.171, Courier Corporation

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• In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

  Bette Davis

  Race, Rats, Guilty

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• Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Beer, Hypocrisy

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• Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Parenting, Reason

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Montessori Reader”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Bud, World, Spirit

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.326, Random House

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• A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.444, Harvard University Press

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