Innocent Quotes - Page 2

• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Lying, Innocence

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• Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

  Jonathan Swift

  Blessed, Blessing, Power

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• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  Bianca Jagger

  Innocent Person, People, Innocence

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  There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

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• I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

  Ernst Zundel

  War, Boys, Second Chance

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• She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

  Shiri Appleby

  Firsts, Innocence, Naive

  "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

  Innocence, Guilty, Truth Is

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• There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  Antonin Scalia

  Practice, Justice, Demand

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• In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Country, Blood

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

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• ...language is never innocent.

  Roland Barthes

  Language

  Roland Barthes (1984). “Writing degree zero ; &, Elements of semiology”, Random House (UK)

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

  Anthony Anderson

  Innocence, Guilty

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

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• We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Choices, Innocence, Guilty

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Men, Risk

  Voltaire (1956). “Candide: and other writings”

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• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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• The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

  Josh Billings

  Thinking, Innocence

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

  Phyllis George

  Sweet, Lines, Tough

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• For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

  Kevin McCarty

  Karma, Past, May

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• When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Faces, Innocence

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  World, Care, Innocence

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• The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

  William Cowper

  Innocence, Uncomfortable, Pillow

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• The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Iraq, People, Soldier

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• Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

  Agatha Christie

  Justice, Needs, Too Much

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Hallowe'en party”, Pocket

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• I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

  Fred Melamed

  Children, Believe, Two

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• Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people.

  Vito Fossella

  War, People, Citizens

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• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, People, House

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