Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
Charles Edward Montague

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

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Karl Shapiro

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

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

Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Justinian I

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

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.
Sean Penn

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

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.
Shiri Appleby

So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances it seems tortured.
Jane Mayer

Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Barbara Kingsolver

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.
Robert Casey

The artificial is always innocent.
Frank O'Hara

The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
Barry White

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike

The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces.
Tim Murphy

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

The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise.
Jose Serrano

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