Quotes About Innocence

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings.

War loves to seek its victims in the young.

The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

There is no moral difference between a Stealth bomber and a suicide bomber. They both kill innocent people for political reasons.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to pastWithout a word--the menLeaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriagesLasting a little while longer:Never such innocence again.

...I knew in the end the guilt of one side did not prove the innocence of the other.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Children have the wisdom of God and are closer to it than many people who have spent years in this world gaining all kinds of knowledge about the nature of religion. Children have it naturally.

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.