Innocent Quotes - Page 3

• Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hands, Lines, Lasts

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• Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Blessed, Yield, Blood

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• Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.

  Cat Stevens

  Revenge, Land, Community

  "Faith and the future" by Yusuf Islam, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2001.

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• And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Life, Mistake, Insecurity

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 22, 2013

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• In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Evil, Sometimes, Appearance

  "Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America". Book by Harry Barnard, p. 481, 1954.

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• First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

  Milos Forman

  Stupid, Believe, Silly

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• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  Jack Lynch

  Government, People, Innocence

  "Honeymoon ended early for troops as North descended into three decades of violence". www.irishtimes.com. August 14, 1999.

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• Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Military, Sides, Civilians

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• For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.

  John Conyers

  Children, Men, Middle East

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• The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

  Allen Tate

  Heart, Panthers, Innocence

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

  George Orwell

  Judging, Atheism, Saint

  Shooting an Elephant (1950) "Reflections on Gandhi"

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• Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

  Matt Drudge

  Innocence, Drink, Okay

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• It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

  Sam Brownback

  Religious, Government, Hands

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• We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

  Ronald Reagan

  Play, World, Politics

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.426, Simon and Schuster

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• God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

  Izaak Walton

  Berries, Innocence, Calm

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1775). “The Complete Angler: Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation...: Prefixed, the Lives of the Author and Notes ...”, p.125

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• Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Terror was brought to many countries on his direct orders and in his name, against men, women and children, Christians and Muslims. Osama Bin Laden claimed to be acting in the name of Islam, but in reality he made a mockery of the basic values of his and all other religions.

  Angela Merkel

  Christian, Country, Children

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• One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

  Edward Coke

  Coke, Innocence, Guilty

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• The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Inspiration, Innocence, Language

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• For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

  James Boswell

  Thinking, May, Innocence

  James Boswell (1807). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: comprehending an account of his studies and numerous works, in chronological order; a series of his epistolatory correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published: the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great-Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.403

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• Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Family Love, Thinking

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• It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fighting, People, Innocence

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• When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Innocence, Guilty, Found

  Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.97

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• While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

  Richard Jewell

  Men, Innocent Man, Names

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• We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Children, Innocence, Obligation

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