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Innocence Quotes

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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

Youngsters are individuals who deserve admiration, higher than us because of their naivety and the potential that lies ahead for them.
Authors on Innocence Quotes: Henry David Thoreau Friedrich Nietzsche Rajneesh William Shakespeare Jean Racine Quentin S. Crisp Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publilius Syrus John Milton Mehmet Murat Ildan Mason Cooley Francois de La Rochefoucauld Albert Camus Samuel Johnson Moliere Bruce Springsteen Seneca the Younger Immanuel Kant Annie Dillard Jean Baudrillard Graham Greene Oscar Wilde Horace Frederick Lenz Philip Massinger William Butler Yeats Anthony Anderson Pierre Corneille Deepak Chopra Joseph Addison Leonard Peltier May Sarton Joseph Joubert
2.
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People in their original form are fundamentally benevolent. Yet, this primordial virtue is distorted by the wickedness of civilisation.
3.
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
Hozier

4.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

5.
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
Bruce Springsteen

6.
Every harlot was a virgin once.
William Blake

7.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I

8.
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
Immanuel Kant

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone

10.
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Daniel Day-Lewis

11.
I am not guilty, I am innocent.
Saddam Hussein

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Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
George W. Bush

13.
We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
Leonard Peltier

14.
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Lawren Harris

15.
I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf of wonder.
Michael Jackson

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I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.
Bruce Springsteen

17.
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel

18.
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Edward Coke

19.
Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.
Alan Keyes

20.
For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
Susan Hill

21.
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
John Milton

22.
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
Jean Baudrillard

23.
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
Leonard Peltier

24.
It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Sean Penn

25.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton

26.
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
John Lydon

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Self-knowledge is like lost innocence; however unsettling you find it, it can never be 'unthought' or 'unknown'.
Michael Sandel

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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden

29.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
Albert Camus

30.
All happiness is a form of innocence.
Marguerite Yourcenar

31.
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
Helene Cixous

32.
The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare

33.
Ignorance is not innocence.
Christina, Queen of Sweden

34.
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
Amos Bronson Alcott

35.
all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.
Joanne Greenberg

36.
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.
Lionel Shriver

37.
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure precisely to the extent it brought me to despair?
Georges Bataille

38.
I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.
River Phoenix

39.
Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Oscar Wilde

40.
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
Sarah Moore Grimke

41.
My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.
Joseph Estrada

42.
Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
Whittaker Chambers

43.
I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.
Kirsten Dunst

44.
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus

45.
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

46.
I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
William Shakespeare

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One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.
Jodi Picoult

48.
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
Saul Bellow

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Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Nadine Gordimer

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Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.
Thomas Paine