Innocent Quotes - Page 10

• It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

  Richard Steele

  Heart, Men, Self

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.318

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• The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

  Francis Thompson

  Moving, Moon, Shining

  Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

  Graham Greene

  Voice, Towers, Innocence

  Graham Greene (2010). “The Quiet American”, p.110, Random House

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• The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

  Lord Byron

  School, Son, Boys

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• I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Wall

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

  Lucan

  Forgiveness, Men, Judging

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• As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

  Andrew Davies

  Growing Up, Teenager, Drinking

  Source: collider.com

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• In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive. Now you've got drugs, guns, and knives, which are so lethal.

  Michael Caine

  Gun, Knives, Alcohol

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Violence has to end. And Israelis have a bright to defend themselves against any violence that is attacking innocent people with a knife in the old city in Jerusalem or elsewhere. No country should be under siege like that.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Knives, Cities

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Many people I know - writers, poets - they have all been sentenced not once but sometimes three times after they come out. They serve five or six years, come out another time, and then nine years. Come out again, 12 years. Only because they have a different opinion. They are innocent people, they have beautiful minds, beautiful hearts.

  Ai Weiwei

  Beautiful, Heart, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I first went to Europe, I thought I was going to move there. I was making plans to move to the south of Spain. It's such a cute, innocent thought. I think we all go through it.

  Eva Mendes

  Cute, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Father, Suffering

  "Picture Perfect". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

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• What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wise, Maturity, Names

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• It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Party, Judging, Rewards

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• Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

  Josephus

  Simplicity, Forever, Innovation

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• Having lost faith in all else, zealots have nothing left but a holy cause to please a warrior God. They win if we become holy warriors, too; if we kill the innocent as they do; strike first at those who had not struck us; allow our leaders to use the fear of terrorism to make us afraid of the truth; cease to think and reason together, allowing others to tell what's in God's mind.

  Bill Moyers

  Warrior, Winning, Thinking

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• When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

  George W. Bush

  Marine, Blood, Example

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Capital punishment? It makes no sense as a policy: It's not a deterrent, and economically it's a disaster. It's very clear that there are innocent people on death row. And if I put an innocent person to death, that's murder.

  Tony Goldwyn

  Punishment, Innocent Person, People

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• The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Hatred, Titles

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• If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.

  Martha Manning

  Simple, Years, Wind

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• I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

  Terry McMillan

  Nerves, Letters, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

  Henry Adams

  Succeed, Toys, Analogies

  "Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres". Book by Henry Adams, 1904.

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• If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, People, Passionate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.

  Tony Blair

  Determination, People, Desire

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• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  Edward Bernays

  Writing, Data, Mind

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