Innocent Quotes

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

Laurie Lee

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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Iyanla Vanzant

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The artificial is always innocent.

Frank O'Hara

InnocentAlwaysArtificial

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

Daniel Defoe

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

W. H. Auden

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Ask any experienced defense lawyer: the real risks are for an accused person who is innocent. A guilty defendant has many more options available.

Andrew Vachss

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The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

S. J. Rozan

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I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

Robert Schumann

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I'm kind of in love with my theater agent. I'm a true naive about the theater, a total innocent.

Nathan Englander

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Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

Jed S. Rakoff

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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.

Kapil Sibal

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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

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I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

Sister Souljah

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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

Ed Markey

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The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.

Tom Stoppard

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The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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I love horror movies, and the kid is always such a big part. Kids are usually seen as so innocent, like, 'Oh, they can't do anything that creepy - they're kids!' That's what a lot of horror movies draw on, so getting to join that 'club' is really cool.

Milly Shapiro

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It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism.

Joichi Ito

LawEasyInnocentTerrorismHuman

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

Coolio

InnocentDoneNiceNothingGuy

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Anthony Anderson

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

Phil Donahue

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I'm just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.

Shane Dawson

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I know that Israeli soldiers will do everything they can in order to avoid loss of innocent life.

Tzipi Livni

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