Innocent Quotes - Page 32

• Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

  Armond White

  Names, Imagination, Stories

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• There are no innocent people in a guilty nation.

  Nadeem Aslam

  People, Guilty, Nations

  Nadeem Aslam (2013). “The Blind Man's Garden”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• Given my experience, I believe there are three compelling reasons why the death penalty should be replaced. (1) The criminal justice system makes mistakes and the possibility of executing innocent people is both inherently wrong and morally reprehensible; (2) My personal experience and crime data show the death penalty does not reduce crime; and (3) The death penalty wastes precious resources that could be best used to fight crime and solve thousands of unsolved homicides languishing in filing cabinets in understaffed police departments across the state.

  George Gascon

  Mistake, Believe, Fighting

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• Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

  David Plotz

  Running, Political, Culture

  "Why Slate will no longer refer to Washington’s NFL team as the Redskins". www.slate.com. August 8, 2013.

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• No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

  Diana Peterfreund

  Kings, Past, Trying

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• The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

  Tom Petty

  Looks, Care, Tvs

  ""Tom Petty Is Pissed"". Rolling Stone, October 23, 2002.

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• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  Raymond Burr

  Ambition, Eye, Pride

  "Fictional character: Steve Martin". "Godzilla 1985", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, America, People

  George W. Bush (1982). “Public paper of the presidents of the United States”, p.958, Government Printing Office

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• Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

  George W. Bush

  Order, Impossible, Missions

  "President Bush Delivers Remarks on Iraq and Answers Questions From the Media". Remarks & Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2007.

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• The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

  George W. Bush

  Believe, Humor, Mean

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• I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

  Chris Burden

  Children, Reflection, Tools

  Interview with Sonia Campagnola and Valentina Sansone, www.flashartonline.com. 2009.

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• No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Guilty, Governing

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• Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Animal, Hell, Planets

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Innocent Person, Justice, Long

  Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 Mar. 1785

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• The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

  Edward Abbey

  People, Would Be, Death Penalty

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Believe, Dirty

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Guilty, Priests

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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• Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

  Studs Terkel

  Phones, Government, Gone

  "More NSA Legal Actions", www.wired.com. May 22, 2006.

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• For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the 'straightjacket world' created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches.... I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

  Malcolm X

  Religious, Strong, Philosophy

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• I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Undone, Harm

  Malcolm X, Bruce Perry (1989). “Malcolm X: the last speeches”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.

  Pol Pot

  Mistake, Enemy, Spares

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• I have issued instructions that while handling the situation in Upper Assam innocent civilians should not be harassed.

  Sonia Gandhi

  Instruction, Should, Situation

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• We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Courage, Believe, Treats

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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