Innocent Quotes

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Paul Simon

Death, Long, Put

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift

Power, Blessing, Used

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.
Madeleine Albright

Good, Evil, Enough

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence

Girl, Everything, Her

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
Bette Davis

Guilty, Everybody, Proved

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.
Richard M. Nixon

Job, President, Pursue

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Donald Rumsfeld

Women, Men, Children

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason, Step, Actions

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
William Cowper

Find, Seldom, Pillow

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

Nothing, Understand, Cannot

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus

Pain, Lie, Forces

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
Wangari Maathai

Good, Women, Men

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

Human, Games, Actions

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.
King Abdullah II

Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.
Bryant H. McGill

Hope, Freedom, Blessed

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
Jimmy Carter

Hurt, Give, Wrong

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
Cat Stevens

Revenge, Violence, Everyday

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury

Nothing, Military, Safe

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

Guilty, Escape, Ten

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.
Pat Robertson

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.
John Podhoretz

Children, Against, Research

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Women, Men, Children

People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
Janet Jackson

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.
Bianca Jagger

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

God, Calm, Quiet

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.
Phil Donahue

Cheating, Public, Reporter

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
Danny Boyle

Great, Ego, Problem

Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.
John Mica

Government, Justice, Mean

But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.
Salman Rushdie

May, Trying, Whatever

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
Arthur Miller

Life, Through, Country

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