Innocent Quotes

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandhi

Good, Sacrifice, Perfect

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King

Trust, Liar, Useful

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Strength, Courage, Woman

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.
Ronald Reagan

Play, Abroad, Innocents

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

Person, Him, Give

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Dreams, God

Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock

Control, Gun, Five

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela

Rather, Dying, Blood

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Voltaire

Guilty, Risk, Saving

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.
Clint Eastwood

Society, Children, Reason

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.
Malcom X

Power, Powerful, Control

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.
Barack Obama

Home, Freedom, Around

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good, Evil, Words

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell

Guilty, Until, Judged

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats

Time, Beautiful, Enemy

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn

Enough, Large, Shame

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

Government, Guilty, Terrorist

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh

Children, Duty, Mankind

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
Elizabeth I

Nothing, Conscience, Clear

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rather, Guilty, Leave

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Through, Become, Number

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.
Agatha Christie

Justice, Put, Often

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.
Noam Chomsky

War, Against, Terrorism

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
Kin Hubbard

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
Honore de Balzac

Life, Human, Spring

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

Simple, Everyone, Fact

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.
Fred Melamed

God, Children, Done

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
Horace

Within, Wall, Armed

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Fred Woodworth

Hurt, Human, Seems

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May

Death, Live, Human

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