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Quotes About Innocent

Friar Giovanni of Plano Carpini, a sixty-five-year-old cleric, who had been one of the disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi, arrived as the agent and spy for Pope Innocent IV, commissioned to find out as much as possible about these strange people who had threatened Europe.
~ Jack Weatherford
Whether you are on the left or the right, we should all agree that organized human smugglers are putting innocent lives at risk. As a former undercover officer in the CIA, I am appalled that we are not maximizing the use of intelligence to deny and disrupt these transnational smuggling networks.
~ Will Hurd
Don't mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky.
~ R. S. Thomas
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.
~ Abigail Adams
At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.
~ Rod Dreher
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.
~ Gautama Buddha
Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians.
~ Theodore C. Sorensen
The principle of copyright is this. It is a tax on readers for the purpose of giving a bounty to writers. The tax is an exceedingly bad one; it is a tax on one of the most innocent and most salutary of human pleasures; and never let us forget, that a tax on innocent pleasures is a premium on vicious pleasures.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
When it comes to personal consciousness evolution, doing nothing or making a minimal effort is an intentional choice that, as any choice, produces consequences. In this game there are no spectators or bystanders – innocent or otherwise.
~ Thomas Campbell
For a philosopher should not see in the eyes of the poor limitary creature calling himself a man of the world, and filled with the narrow and self-regarding prejudices of birth and education, but should look upon himself as a Catholic creature, and as standing in an equal relation to high and low - to educated and uneducated, to the guilty and the innocent.
~ Thomas de Quincey
As far as same-sex marriage, I really would want to think about that a lot more given the fact that my focus would be always on the child. The innocent should not be given more even burdens than what is absolutely necessary.
~ Benigno Aquino III
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
I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
~ Coolio
Savyasachi' is an action romantic film and I'm getting to work with some very nice people. I play the role of a simple girl who's very innocent and independent.
~ Nidhhi Agerwal
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
~ Noam Chomsky
What the hell are you tryng to do? She gave him an innocent stare. Why, have a conversation. I suppose you're out of practice. He glared,narrow-eyed, then turned away. I'm going for a walk, he muttered. Lovely. Gennie slipped her arm through his. I'll go with you. I didn't ask you, Grant said flatly, stopping again. Oh. Gennie batted her eyes. You're trying to charm me by being rude again. It's so difficult to resist.
~ Nora Roberts
In him the rage held cold, an iced fury as the hot licks of blood and madness swirled around him. His brother. Young, innocent, suffering. The life draining out of him, out of a body wracked with pain
~ Nora Roberts
such sacrifice, to damn an innocent to
~ Nora Roberts
They will say your doubts shed innocent blood. But I say - what's blood for, if not for shedding?
~ Clive Barker
Selfish. Solitary. Savage. Those were the things that best defined him. Not softness. Not sympathy. Not some twisted urge to be a saviour to the fierce-hearted beauty and the innocent child sleeping so trustingly under the guard of a man who'd been raised a soulless monster.
~ Lara Adrian
Sometimes the innocent suffer with the guilty. They can get caught in the backwash.
~ Larry Osborne