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Quotes About Innocents

Realize and learn that coronavirus is a penalty for warmongers and offenders of injustice; consequently, innocents also are under its victimization.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
~ Jay Parini
And yet, when to act on that belief causes deep hurt to innocents who had nothing to do with the original wrong -- if there was one -- do we not have a greater responsibility to the present than to the past?
~ Shashi Tharoor
You swore an oath, just like the rest of us. I won't have you preying on innocents in my town. (Talon) Ooo. How cliché, little partner. Wanna tell me to be out by sunup, or better yet, this town ain't big enough for the two of us? (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The two Anastasias represent the two faces of the twentieth century. One is a century that really existed, full of war and the slaughter of innocents. The second is the century we longed to have, of peace and family pleasures, and the dreams of any little girl who would close her eyes and become a princess.
~ John Klier
Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth.
~ Michelle Malkin
O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!
~ Samuel Richardson
No, war will not be stopped. But it is a comfort, in the midst of a war, to read an antiwar book this good, and be reminded that just because something keeps happening, doesn't mean we get to stop regretting it. Massacres are bad, the death of innocents is bad, hate is bad, and there's something cleansing about hearing it said so purely.
~ George Saunders
My experience has been that the poor, simple people of the world admire us, are enamored of our boldness, are hopeful that the insanely positive values we espouse can be actualized in the world. They are, in other words, rooting for us. Which means that when we disappoint them--when we come in too big, kill innocents, when our powers of discernment are diminished by our frenzied, self-protective, fearful post-9/11 energy--we have the potential to disappoint them bitterly and drive them away.
~ George Saunders
War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
~ Howard Zinn
The dead shook off their rust of living and seized up steel. Their lips quivered with the defiance of innocents, with manipulations of politicians and their interchangeable dreams, and with the insanity of thugs who don't even know for which parties they commit their atrocities.
~ Ben Okri
Amongst the deported are many Catholics. Would it not be possible that Your Holiness make another attempt to intercede for these unhappy innocents? Your intervention represents the last hope of so many and the fervent entreaty of all decent men.
~ Gitta Sereny
FBI slaughter of the innocents at Waco was a model Jacobin enterprise.
~ Gore Vidal
Any government that allow schoolchildren to be murdered even once has to be thought of as flawed, but a government that repeatedly lets its children, and other innocents, be killed has to be considered a failure. As the head of such a government, responsibility for that failure begins, but doesn't end, with me.
~ Joseph Flynn
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.
~ Sydney Schanberg
Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.
~ Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
There are a lot of really crappy bonds in these CDOs,'" said Charlie. They didn't realize yet that the bonds inside their CDOs were actually credit default swaps on the bonds, and so their CDOs weren't ordinary CDOs but synthetic CDOs, or that the bonds on which the swaps were based had been handpicked by Mike Burry and Steve Eisman and others betting against the market. In many ways, they were still innocents.
~ Michael Lewis
Innocents don't learn from their sins; the chastened are informed by them.
~ Shelby Steele
Journey before destination. There are several ways to achieve a goal. Failure is preferable to winning through unjust means. Protecting ten innocents is not worth killing one. In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Barack Obama commits war crimes - Somalia, Yemen. He commits war crimes in Pakistan, Afghanistan. Martin Luther King Jr. tried to keep a spotlight on war crimes, to keep track of the innocents killed... There is a major clash.
~ Cornel West
The blood of innocents has always been the currency of charismatic leaders.
~ Brian Herbert
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
~ Bryce Courtenay
The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of innocents everywhere.
~ Terry Pratchett
I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. Each of these innocents on the street is engulfed by a terror of their own ordinariness. They would do anything to be unique.
~ Katherine Dunn