Innocent Quotes - Page 11

• The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security. I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people?

  Paul Nitze

  Wise, Thinking, Compelling Reason

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• Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Selfish, Positive Life, What If

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• I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines. ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Makeup, Laughing, Acting

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• Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Miracle, Magic

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• I wonder about prisoners. They're told, "You are free, you are innocent, you can go anywhere." I'm sure they usually feel nothing. They don't burst into tears or hysterics or joy or "I told you so." It's nothing. To be on the straight path isn't a bloody thing. It's just ordinary.

  Diana Vreeland

  Joy, Tears, Ordinary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.

  Todd Haynes

  Reading, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I played soccer, and I played in a band, and sometimes I was able to do a movie. And my school would cooperate. It was a very easy way to roll into what later became my profession. It's more innocent. When you're a child actor in the U.S., it's a different thing I think.

  Michiel Huisman

  Soccer, Children, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every previous era looks innocent.

  James Fallows

  Looks, Eras

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• The government considers the aborting of innocent unborn children a natural right. Yet, there is widespread debate still about whether the death penalty for convicted murderers is "cruel and unusual punishment."

  Joseph Farah

  Children, Punishment, Government

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• It has come to the time where the most dangerous place to be in America is not the inner city, where gangs threaten innocent lives, or in angry prisons, where only the fit survive, but in the womb of a mother who is being told that if she doesn't really want the baby, an abortion is the solution.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Mother, Baby, Cities

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• Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she posed nude, it was 'Gee, I am kind of, you know, sort of dishy,' like she enjoyed it without being egotistical.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Self, Kind

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• [T]he guilty as well as the innocent are entitled to due process of law. They are entitled to a fair trial. They are entitled to counsel. They are entitled to fair treatment from the police. The law enforcement officer has the same duty as the citizen-indeed, he has a higher duty-to abide by the letter and spirit of our Constitution and laws. You yourselves must be careful to obey the letter of the law. You yourselves must be intellectually honest in the enforcement of the law.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Police, Letters

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• Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Boys, Done, World

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• St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

  Bob Dornan

  Defense, Vote, Judgment

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• The earth affords a lavish supply of richess of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Horse, Sheep, Vegetarian Diet

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• Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Angel, Looks

  Honore De Balzac (1958). “Cousin Bette”

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• I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Rights, Cities

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• I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Growing Up, Real

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.7, Random House

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• I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.

  Larry Clark

  Years, Ideas, Down And

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• ...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

  John Irving

  Study, Vengeance, Revelations

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

  Jon Stewart

  Arabia, Female, Guilty

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• Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Past, Law, Community

  "No Country for 'Black Teens'" by Benjamin Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.

  Charlie Munger

  Mother, Son, Simple

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• Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

  John Nolte

  Hero, Target, Moral

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• Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Justified, Natural, Plans

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