Innocent Quotes - Page 39

• We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Children, Ignorance, Men

  "Giffords Tragedy: What’s the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service?" by Gloria Feldt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2011.

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• As long as there are those who are willing to shed blood and take innocent life in the name of religion, the name of God, the world will never know a true and lasting peace.

  Hillary Clinton

  Blood, Names, Long

  "Hillary Clinton Condemns Anti-Islam Film". Hillary Clinton's comments on the subject of the controversial anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" during a joint appearance in Washington, D.C., www.ibtimes.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Gratitude is the confidence in life itself... As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own good fortune and in the good fortune of others... We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive.

  Jack Kornfield

  Gratitude, Children, People

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.33, Shambhala Publications

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• Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

  Max Lucado

  Relationship, Punishment, Guilt

  Twitter post from Feb 11, 2013

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• Thats what abortion is - killing innocent humans for money. Abortionists are government licensed hit men.

  Charley Reese

  Men, Abortion, Killing

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• Purge thy heart from malice and, innocent of envy, enter the divine court of holiness.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Heart, Envy, Holiness

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• Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard her. Her writing is from a deep, yet innocent, place and her point of view is just a bit off center. I am excited for her, she is standing at the beginning of her journey in this town, with all of it ahead of her. It reminds me of the first time I heard Beth Nielson-Chapman or Nanci Griffith. It's going to be fun to watch.

  Kathy Mattea

  Fun, Writing, Journey

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• Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Prayer, Blessed, Sacrifice

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• Thus it is that Pope Innocent III states [De Consuetudine] that, it is necessary to obey the Pope in all things as long as he, himself, does not go against the universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal customs of the Church, 'he need not be followed' . . .

  Pope Innocent I

  Long, Church, Doe

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• The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.

  Hannah

  Responsibility, Men, Community

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• Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sweet, Writing, Character

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point.... Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

  Vera Nazarian

  Mean, People, Missing

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• December finds himself again a child
  Even as he undergoes his age.
  Cold and early darkness now descends,
  Embracing sanctuaries of delight.
  More and more he stares into the night,
  Becoming less and less concerned with ends,
  Emblem of the innocent as sage
  Restored to wonder by what he must yield.

  Nick Gordon

  Children, Night, Yield

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• The world obviously needs to change ... if we can't protect our innocent women and children, then we have a serious problem.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Inspiring, Children, Needs

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• Such an act
  That blurs the grace and blush of modesty;
  Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose
  From the fair forehead of an innocent love,
  And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows
  As false as dicers' oaths.

  William Shakespeare

  Hypocrite, Rose, Grace

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.368, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Noses, Innocence

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. As you like it”, p.382

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• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Nature, Punishment

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

  Charles Dickens

  Men, Innocent Man, Words Of Wisdom

  CHARLES DICKENS (1871). “THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK, AND SKETCHES BY "BOZ".”, p.122

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• He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

  Jared Leto

  Simple, Way, Innocence

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• They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Patriotic, Storm

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.

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• An innocent bureaucratic snafu.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous

  "Clinton Apologizes For FBI File Mess", www.cnn.com.

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• Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Success, Lying

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• I love advertising because I love lying. I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard-won earnings to buy useless, low-quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Wisdom, Lying, Thinking

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• Freemasonry is a moral order, instituted by virtuous men, with the praiseworthy design of recalling to our remembrance the most sublime truths, in the midst of the most innocent and social pleasures, founded on liberality, brotherly love and charity.

  Andrew Jackson

  Men, Order, Remembrance

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• We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Justice, Humanity, Honor

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.55, University of Virginia Press

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