Quotes About Innocence

Science is not a neutral or innocent commodity which can be employed as a convenience by people wishing to partake only of the West's material power. Rather it is spiritually corrosive, burning away ancient authorities and traditions. It cannot really co-exist with anything.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

We all know the true nature of the human soul, because we have all looked into the eyes of children, and saw ourselves looking back.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

The true creator-self is a light at heart and free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play.

I always think that if an animal likes you, it must mean that you're not a completely wicked person.

as intense heat and cold, though unlike, produce like sensations, so innocence and guilt, when, through casual association with mental pain, stamping any visible impress, use one seal- a hacked one.

In certain matters, some sailors even in mature life remain unsophisticated enough. But a young seafarer of the disposition of our athletic foretopman is much of a child-man. And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes. But in Billy Budd intelligence, such as it was, had advanced while yet his simplemindedness remained for the most part unaffected.

a face which would have been a very fine one but for its haggardness. Whether this haggardness had aught to do with criminality, could not be determined; since, as intense heat and cold, though unlike, produce like sensations, so innocence and guilt, when, through casual association with mental pain, stamping any visible impress, use one seal--a hacked one.

A child isn't born bitter. I point no fingers as to who tainted the clean, pure pool of my childhood. Let's just say that when I realized that I didn't want to grow up, the damage was already done. Knowing that being grown up was no swell place to be means that you are grown up enough to notice. And you can't go back from there. You have to forge another route, draw your own map.

The surprising thing, Khalil thought, is that they've changed the vessels that they speak through but they haven't turned up their noses at speaking completely, they long for it, they feel nostalgia for their past which, by necessity, is an innocent past.

clear of the ships and shelters!" So he pleaded, lost in his own great innocence ... condemned to beg for his own death and brutal doom.

It may be, said he, that the wisdom of little children flies higher than our heavy wits can follow.

children forever.

People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can't wash off. ... We are born with our heads turned back, but my mother says we have to face into the future now. You have to earn your own innocence, she says. You have to grow up and become innocent.

vio un globo anaranjado volando libremente por el ancho cielo en dirección al río y vio cómo todos los ojos que miraban el globo tenían en ese momento cinco años

He hit and fatally injured my innocent and unfortunate uncle whose muttered last words in hospital, before his coma became a full stop, were: 'My God, the buggers've learned to fly...

It never ceased to amaze him how quickly a small child's face could turn from peach to beetroot.

But innocence is only pleasurable because it is transient.

It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will change or die. It is the future they are innocent of. Fifty years on we look at them with the godly knowledge of how they turne dout after all - who they married, the date of their death - with no thought for who will one day be holding photographs of us.

Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand.