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Quotes About Innocent

We find desiring innocent, and hideous that the other should desire.
~ Marcel Proust
We consider it innocent to desire a thing and atrocious that the other person should desire it.
~ Marcel Proust
We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.
~ Marcus Luttrell
The media in the U.S.A. will latch on to it and write stuff about the brutish U.S. Armed Forces. Very shortly after that, we'll be charged with murder. The murder of innocent unarmed Afghan farmers.
~ Marcus Luttrell
We're trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the missions, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes that we're the one who needs to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle.
~ Marcus Luttrell
They were innocent people. They could just do things you couldn't imagine. I can see code, do you get it? Algorithms that confound straights are just patterns to me. They come in my dreams. I dream the most beautiful programs never written.
~ Marcus Sakey
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The anarchist who finished his meal in a Paris café and then calmly murdered a fellow diner said merely, "I shall not be striking an innocent if I strike the first bourgeois that I meet.
~ Margaret MacMillan
Oh my," she said, feigning innocent. She fanned a hand over her face. "Revenge is so sweet!
~ Unknown
She'd surrendered son and brother here, her home-hall become a brutal battlefield. Innocent of crime, yet cursed, captured, speared, worse. Hoc's daughter was savaged by sorrow, grief-gutted. Who wouldn't weep, as dawn drove feud-daggers deeper, the sun scoring her son's wounds, day breaking upon her dearest dead? They'd been her heart, her happiness, her hopes. War had wrung them ragged, dragged them to death across a court of sword-crossed kin.
~ Unknown
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
~ Maria Montessori
Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.
~ Marian Keyes
un ingenuo que pretendía llegar a la línea del horizonte.
~ Unknown
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
~ A. J. Jacobs
Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
~ Bryant H. McGill
The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.
~ George W. Bush
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.
~ Samuel Johnson
So it could be that the Deputy Inspector-General of Police was not quite the innocent worshipper he appeared to be on that morning of 25th April.
~ Unknown
I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.
~ Dan Howell
He forced himself forward trying to seem innocent without acting like someone who was guilty who was trying to act innocent.
~ James Dashner, The Maze Runner
Pity … should be reserved for innocent people who are in genuine pain or who have fallen on misfortune. If you find yourself often pitying someone who consistently hurts you or other people, and who actively campaigns for your sympathy, the chances are close to 100 percent that you are dealing with a sociopath.
~ Martha Stout
But grace has changed my nature for the better, to keep me from joining them and shedding innocent blood.
~ Martin Luther
Everyone stared at her, sorry for her but glad it had not happened to them. There were a few murmurs of sympathy, and a few people whispering all the reasons they thought Vilsa may have deserved what had happened. It is important to make people deserve what happens to them. If bad things can happen for no apparent reason, then bad things might happen to innocent us.
~ Martine Leavitt
Our sister Sophia is the one who descended in an innocent manner to restore what she lacked. For this reason she was called life100—that is, the mother of the living—by the forethought of the sovereignty of heaven and by [the insight that appeared] to Adam.101 Through her have the living tasted perfect knowledge.102
~ Unknown