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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.
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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.
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There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
Hozier
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
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The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
Bruce Springsteen
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I
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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
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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
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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
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In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Lawren Harris
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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
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The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
Sylvia Kristel
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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
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For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.
Susan Hill
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
John Milton
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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
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It's only in innocence you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.
Sean Penn
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God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
Izaak Walton
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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
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The innocent is the person who explains nothing
Albert Camus
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I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
Helene Cixous
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
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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
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I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.
River Phoenix
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Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.
Oscar Wilde
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[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.
Sarah Moore Grimke
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My detention has been worth every second if only to prove my innocence to those who truly matter most my countrymen.
Joseph Estrada
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I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.
Kirsten Dunst
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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
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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