Innocent Quotes - Page 4

• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

  William Blackstone

  Justice, Suffering, Innocence

  "Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries".

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• I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

  Jack Ruby

  Gentleman, Rooms, Innocence

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

  Ben Harper

  Sky, Criminals, Today

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• Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.

  Alec Baldwin

  Home, Enemy, Citizens

  "Will They Go to Court?". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2006.

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• Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Innocence, Guilty

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• The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Secret, Vices, Likes

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• The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.

  James T. Walsh

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

  John Lone

  Art, Age, Identity

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• A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

  Edward Teller

  Believe, Science, Simple

  Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books

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• To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Law, Two

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays".

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• In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wind, Mushrooms, Criticism

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• People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

  Janet Jackson

  Sweet, People, Sides

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

  Jack Abbott

  Suffering, Way, Innocence

  Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

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• No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, White, Black

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

  Norman Lamm

  Men, Innocent Man, Views

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• The truth in you remains as radiant as a star, as pure as light, as innocent as love itself.

  James Lane Allen

  Stars, Light, Spirituality

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• No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

  Garrison Keillor

  Death, Suicide, Writing

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Lake Wobegon Days”, p.70, Penguin

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• You say somebody’s guilty, everybody believes you.  You say they’re innocent, nobody cares.

  Paul Newman

  Believe, Care, Guilty

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• I wasn't into Tolkien at school really. But the story is timeless, the themes that it touches on are contained in cultures all around the world. The innocent on a quest, the pretender, an inanimate object that holds evil - it's really strange that these themes are there in so many different countries' folklore.

  Billy Boyd

  Country, School, Evil

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• Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

  George W. Bush

  Government, Support, Innocence

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• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  Tammy Bruce

  Winning, Trials, Innocence

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.264, Crown Forum

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• Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

  Phil Donahue

  Cheating, Men, Recognition

  Phil Donahue (1979). “My own story, Donahue”

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• Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day.

  Bob Marley

  Blood, Pay, Shed

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, p.31, Open Road Media

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• Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspiration, Men, Innocent Man

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.14, Indiana University Press

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