Innocent Quotes

To be innocent is to be not guilty But to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations. (William Penn)
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Pain forces even the innocent to lie. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. View quote
Ayn Rand
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. View quote
Edward Teller
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. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. View quote
John Updike
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people for a purpose which is unattainable. View quote
Howard Zinn
It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. View quote
William Blackstone
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. View quote
Stephen King
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. (Kin Hubbard)
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. View quote
Voltaire
To the children and the innocent it's all the same. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. View quote
Edith Sitwell
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. View quote
William Cowper
That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer, is a maxim that has been long and generally approved. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful as sweet, And young as beautiful, and soft as young, And gay as soft, and innocent as gay. View quote
Edward Young
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a "war against terrorism." (Noam Chomsky)
The breath of accusation kills an innocent name, and leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, which is a mask without it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It's important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world. View quote
Tony Blair
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. View quote
Andrea Hirata
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. View quote
Alan Dean Foster