Innocent Quotes - Page 34

• Cuba laments and expresses its profound sadness for the loss of so many innocent lives and expresses our absolute rejection of acts of terrorism, wherever they may come from.

  Felipe Perez Roque

  Sadness, Loss, Profound

  "World mourns attack victims", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2001.

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• Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

  Julia Child

  Thanksgiving, Food, Soul

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• If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

  James Mattis

  Order, Enemy, Shots

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• He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Wise, Inspiration

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• I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

  Agatha Christie

  Artist, Justice, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

  Maimonides

  Guilty Person, Capital Punishment, Thousand

  "Sefer Hamitzvot". Book by Maimonides,

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• Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction. It's very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, ... If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be cleared.

  Joseph Estrada

  Names, President, Philippines

  "Malaysia's Anwar found guilty on corruption charges". www.cnn.com. April 14, 1999.

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• I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Ideas, People, Flags

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• All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Judging, Suffering, Guilty

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.67

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• You simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call. And then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with. And attack you on that basis to sort to derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer.

  Edward Snowden

  Fall, Decision, Government Spying

  "The Guardian's Entire Interview With the Man Who Leaked PRISM". Interview with Glenn Greenwald, mic.com. June 9, 2013.

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• In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

  John Pilger

  America, People, Lasts

  "Blair has made Britain a target" by John Pilger, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2001.

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• Indifference is dangerous, whether innocent or not.

  Pope Francis

  Indifference, Dangerous

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• [The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Suffering, World, Injustice

  "Spe Salvi". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, w2.vatican.va. November 30, 2007.

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• It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

  Rick Perry

  Men, Innocent Man, Balls

  "Big Bubba Bad Ass Enters the 2012 Race" By Linda R. Monk, J.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2011.

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• Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, September 11, Secret

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

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• People think the film industry is going to corrupt me, but I feel like it's kept me more innocent, in a way. I wasn't really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn't smoke or curse or do anything like that around me. I don't do things that are dangerous to myself. I don't want to hurt myself

  Natalie Portman

  Hurt, Home, Thinking

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• An honest god is the noblest work of man. ... God has always resembled his
  creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably
  found on the side of those in power. ... Most of the gods were pleased with
  sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine
  perfume.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Sacrifice, Men, Blood

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.10, Library of Alexandria

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• However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.

  Pope Pius XI

  Mother, May, Life Is

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• What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'

  Pope Pius XI

  Mother, Children, Law

  Catholic Church. Pope, Pope Pius XI, Gerald C. Treacy, Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI). (1939). “Five great encyclicals: Labor - education - marriage -reconstructing the social order - atheistic communism”

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• We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.

  Marcus Luttrell

  War, Mean, Skills

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• I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Years, Wife

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• Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?

  Bill Hicks

  Gun, Bystanders, Rights

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• Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Real, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Child abuse continues to be a significant problem in the United Sates. It was estimated that 2001,903,000 children were the victims of child abuse or neglect. Child abuse is a crime perpetrated on the innocent and the defenseless.

  Pete Domenici

  Children, Abuse, Problem

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