Innocent Quotes - Page 36

• I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

  Jim Garrison

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.

  Otto Frank

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

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• At this moment, somewhere in the world, children died of starvation, bombs exploded to maim and kill the innocent, hurricanes destroyed everything in their path, but the loveliness of this moment was as real as wars and plagues and heartbreak. Pleasure and beauty are as valid as pain and ugliness and when I am fortunate enough to enjoy the former, I do so.

  Carolyn Hart

  Pain, Children, Real

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• I have made the best and happiest ending that I can in this world, made it out of the flax and netting and leftover trim of someone else's life, I know, but made it to keep the innocent safe and the guilty punished, and I have made it as the world should be and not as I have found it.

  Amy Bloom

  World, Safe, Guilty

  Amy Bloom (2013). “A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You”, p.89, Pan Macmillan

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• Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as "pornography."

  Richard Summerbell

  Men, Naked, Depiction

  "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.

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• Through His Atonement, He heals not only the transgressor, but He also heals the innocent who suffer because of those transgressions. As the innocent exercise faith in the Savior and in His Atonement and forgive the transgressor, they too can be healed.

  C. Scott Grow

  Exercise, Suffering, Forgiving

  "The Miracle of the Atonement". C. Scott Grow's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2011.

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• I like the girls in Ecuador. They are more gentle and trusting, more innocent. They are not as suspicious of strangers as Colombian girls.

  Pedro

  Girl, Ecuador, Stranger

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• It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.

  Yekaterina Samutsevich

  Years, Judging, Strange

  "Pussy Riot punk band remains defiant of Putin's Russia". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2013.

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• Having a little fun at my work does not make me any less of an artist and people who appreciate truly beautiful and original creations in pottery are not frightened by innocent tomfoolery!

  Clarice Cliff

  Beautiful, Fun, Artist

  Pasadena Evening Post, 1931.

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• I used to wonder why God used a prop like the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil to inflict guilt on Adam&Eve, until I realized it could have been a steak or a plate of fries or a bagel. Anything. Making people feel guilty is a staple of religion and society in general. It works. And if you can transfer guilt from a real criminal to an innocent bystander, you've really got something going. It's a magic stage trick that can make a career.

  Jon Rappoport

  Real, Bystanders, Careers

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• I refuse to finance the mass murder of innocent
  civilians...What is one more life thrown away in this
  sad and useless national tragedy? If one death can
  atone for anything, in any small way, to say to the
  world: I apologize for what we have done to you, I am
  ashamed for the mayhem and turmoil caused by my
  country.

  Malachi Ritscher

  Country, Tragedy, World

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• I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

  Dave Collins

  Lying, People, Deceit

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• In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Rap, Mean, Winning

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• The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

  Bianca Jagger

  Believe, Voice, People

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• I love Groot so much I get teary eyed when I think of him sometimes. Essentially, all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards - except Groot. He’s an innocent. He’s a hundred percent deadly and a hundred percent sweet. He’s caught up in Rocket’s life, really.

  James Gunn

  Sweet, Thinking, Rockets

  "Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer Breakdown with James Gunn" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 19, 2014.

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• China is innocent. China is ready to watch the investigation and to watch the possible results of that investigation.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Watches, Results, China

  "Congressman calls alleged Chinese spying 'grave'". www.cnn.com. May 16, 1999.

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• The soul, light as a feather, fluid as water, innocent as a child, responds to every movement of grace like a floating balloon.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Children, Light, Water

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.73, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Pleasure, Pursuit, Sole

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1909). “The Map of Life”

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• Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Sex, Betrayal, Erotic

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.228, Macmillan

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• How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Pain, Passion, Character

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel in Five Sections”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

  Sarah Hall

  Children, Law, Layers

  Sarah Hall (2009). “How to Paint a Dead Man”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

  Mohammed Hanif

  World

  Mohammed Hanif (2011). “A case of Exploding Mangoes”, p.8, Random House India

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• Whenever I see an unmarried woman carrying a child, my first response is one of respect. I know she could have taken the quick fix without anyone knowing, but she chose instead to let an innocent child live.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Taken, Knowing

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments”, p.120, Multnomah

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• There were many moments in the Vine like that one--where you might think today was yesterday, and yesterday was tomorrow, and so on. Because we all believed we were tragic, and we drank. We had that helpless, destined feeling. We would die with handcuffs on. We would be put a stop to, and it wouldn't be our fault. So we imagined. And yet we were always being found innocent for ridiculous reasons.

  Denis Johnson

  Thinking, Yesterday, Feelings

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.32, Macmillan

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• You think that somehow they didn’t come after me to get rid of me because my vote is the deciding vote in the health care bill then, ladies and gentlemen, you live today in a world that is so innocent as not to understand what is going on in Washington, D.C.

  Eric Massa

  Thinking, Gentleman, Today

  "The Democrat Party is a Gulag". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 8, 2010.

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