Innocence Quotes

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.

People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin

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

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

Every harlot was a virgin once.

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.

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

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

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.

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

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

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

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

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.

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.

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

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.

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

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

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

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.

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

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

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

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

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

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

All happiness is a form of innocence.

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

The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.

Ignorance is not innocence.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

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.

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?

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

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

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

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

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

Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.

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

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

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

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

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

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

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

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