1.
Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake.
Pol Pot
'It is preferable to make an inadvertent sacrifice of the guiltless than to inadvertently pardon a foe.'
2.
There are no innocent civilians, so it doesn't bother me so much to be killing innocent bystanders.
Curtis LeMay
3.
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I
6.
If in order to kill the enemy you have to kill an innocent, don't take the shot. Don't create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.
James Mattis
8.
All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent
David R. Brower
10.
Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as "pornography."
Richard Summerbell
11.
Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.
Eula Biss
12.
There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?
William S. Burroughs
13.
Innocent droplets of rain make almost all events quite natural.
Visar Zhiti
15.
The innocent is the person who explains nothing
Albert Camus
16.
I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood
Judas Iscariot
17.
When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged innocent.
Klaus Barbie
18.
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
Jose Rizal
19.
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
Helene Cixous
20.
I am no longer taking part in the intentional, premeditated murder of innocent beings.
Gary Yourofsky
21.
Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.
William J. Brennan
22.
When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.
Ronald Reagan
23.
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
24.
I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.
George Carlin
25.
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
27.
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.
Maimonides
28.
Only love with its science makes us so innocent.
Violeta Parra
29.
I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?
Cassandra Clare
31.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
Azar Nafisi
32.
I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.
Zachary Levi
33.
Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know.
Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.
Dashiell Hammett
34.
Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl.
Debbie Reynolds
36.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Rutherford B. Hayes
37.
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
Douglas Sirk
38.
They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
Anne Sexton
40.
To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.
Gerald Jampolsky
43.
Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
Seth Godin
44.
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.
Queen Noor of Jordan
45.
You're innocent when you dream.
Tom Waits
47.
Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.
Ma Huateng
48.
Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
Alwin Nikolais
49.
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
Graham Greene
50.
Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.
Ward Churchill