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Quotes About Innocent

Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend.
~ Samuel Johnson
in a universe where both information and misinformation are constantly suspect, reviewed and drifing as they must be (constantly) by and between the two, a moment when either information or misinformation turns out to be harmless must bloom, when surrounded by the workings of desire and terror, into the offered sign of all about it, making and marking all about it innocent by contamination.
~ Samuel R. Delany
God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God's peace.
~ Marianne Williamson
mystery of God.' I can't read my own writing. No matter. 'Of course misfortunes have opened the way to blessings you would never have thought to hope for, that you would not have been ready to understand as blessings if they had come to you in your youth, when you were uninjured, innocent. The future always finds us changed.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Of course misfortunes have opened the way to blessings you would never have thought to hope for, that you would not have been ready to understand as blessings if they had come to you in your youth, when you were uninjured, innocent.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Good women discuss these things the way epidemiologists identify and track disease without alarming the public. This is woman's work. Men are unfitted for it by nature and should be protected from it the same way women shouldn't have to go down the mines. Men are so innocent.
~ Ann-Marie MacDonald
Feuchtwanger's more dubious actions — e.g., he threw away cables that contained information pertaining to the prisoners but addressed to him personally, without informing the other prisoners of the cables' contents. When they learned of his callousness, the inmates were out for blood, but Schoenberner protected Feuchtwanger with the condescending defense that "by his own dim lights" he was "quite innocent.
~ Anthony Heilbut
This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent.
~ Antonin Scalia
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.
~ Simone Weil
Evil inhabits the soul of a criminal without being felt there. It is felt in the heart of the man who is afflicted and innocent.
~ Simone Weil
I'm not gullible, I'm trusting.
~ Sophie Kinsella
CHORUS: What canst thou plead? OEDIPUS: A plea of justice. CHORUS: How? OEDIPUS: I slew who else would me have slain; I slew without intent, A wretch, but innocent In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.
~ Sophocles
I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.
~ Henry Waxman
It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.
~ Jane Jacobs
Every god creature has a "Life Cycle" and we all worth it as our right but my question is that who is more innocent, Human Being or Animal Being?
~ G.K. Dutta
No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of sorrow in that mind!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Not seeing the divine glory of Christ in the gospel is blameworthy. It is not an innocent blindness, but a culpable love of darkness. "They
~ John Piper
It is not unreasonable to assume that the amount of blood shed will be tied to the numbers of the innocent unborn who were aborted in and allowed by the Daughter of Babylon.
~ John Price
Though all three are prophesied to occur, of these three, only one is stated in scripture as the reason for the destruction of the Daughter of Babylon. The common link between the second and third listed future occurrences, is a precious liquid, i.e., human blood, the shedding of innocent human blood.
~ John Price
but Surge was not mad, had never been completely drained of his compassion and he could never forget, nor could he since then look upon the helpless and the innocent with anything less than outrage and a desire for justice.
~ John Spencer
Between the brutality that would sacrifice a single innocent life to a fear without a name, and the enlightenment that would sacrifice thousands of lives to a fear that we have named, I have found little to choose.
~ John Williams
As he slew the innocent victim, he trembled at the thought that his sin must shed the blood of the spotless Lamb of God.
~ Ellen G. White
Mr. Cope...' Povy began. Jem narrowed his eyes. 'The lad has a remarkably innocent face.' 'Innocence is a time of life, not an irrevocable blot.
~ Eloisa James