Quotes About Innocent

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.

slavery would make us—and the idea—completely irredeemable. How can the shining city on the hill be capable of such evil? We would rather find comfort and safety in the lie than try to resolve this question. But, in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.

[Pilate] took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

Who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Actus non facit reum, nisi mens sit rea [The act is not criminal unless the intent is criminal].

It is important that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.

I don't want to put one innocent person to death to put 99 that are guilty to death. So philosophically I'm a tooth-for-tooth guy, but the reality is the death penalty as public policy is flawed.

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.

If the government has any courage, it will punish those at the top of failed banks. Accountability is critical in every area of human endeavour - there has to be a penalty for failure; otherwise, it's only a matter of time before the economic pain our banks have caused to so many innocent businesses and homeowners is forgotten.

The costs of badly-run NASA projects are paid for with cutbacks or delays in NASA projects that didn't go over budget. Hence the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.

When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to women characters in comics - I made her an innocent virginal type, a clever, dark, liberated woman, and as Bloody Mary, a feminist bent of punishing men - all in one character. She was an instinctual rather than a calculated creation.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

The people in Kolkata are very different. They don't wish to be super rich but give more importance to education than anything else. They are very innocent at heart, and one can sense a lot of purity in them.

He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.

Under the conditions prevailing here the servant could not work unerringly, some time the accumulated annoyance, the accumulated uneasiness, must break ou t, and if it manifested itself only in the tearing up of a little piece of paper it was still comparatively innocent.

don't make such a fuss about how innocent you feel; it disturbs the otherwise not unfavorable impression you make.

You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.

You see, Willem, he admits that he doesn't know the Law and yet he claims he's innocent.

You see, Willhem, he admits that he doesn't know the Law and yet he claims he's innocent. You're right there, but he can't seem to understand anything, said the other. K. said nothing more; why should I let the idle talk of these lowly agents - they admit themselves that's what they are - confuse me further? he thought. After all, they're discussing things they don't understand. Their confidence is based solely on ignorance.

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in different things each time - but I did think there were a couple of extra loops in the plot that I probably didn't need. The other thing that sort of amazed me was how discursive the book was.

clean-cut. She has freckles!