Innocent Quotes - page 33

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)
Grief falls upon human beings as the rain, not selecting good or evil, visiting the innocent, condemning those who have done no wrong. View quote
Richard Jefferies
But there is craft, and plenty of it - craft enough to impose on mature men, not to say innocent boys; and this is called profession. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and the most active. View quote
John W. Campbell
Lying is not only excusable it is not only innocent it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne. View quote
H. L. Mencken
From this moment on, the child becomes a political object-to a certain extent, the living security deposit of enlightenment. The child is the "noble savage” in one's own house. Through appropriate education care must be taken in the future that innocent children are not made into the same artificial social cripples the previous system produced. Children are already what the new bourgeois humans believe they want to become. View quote
Peter Sloterdijk
I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man? View quote
Jim Garrison
The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime. View quote
Yiyun Li
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors. View quote
Cindy Sheehan
I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights. (Rand Paul)
I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. View quote
Robert Butts
Their piety is as abject as their justice. Am I innocent? I'm guilty. Am I guilty? I'm innocent. (I'm innocent when I'm guilty, guilty when I'm innocent. I'm guilty when ... but that is another song. Another song? It's all the same song.) Guilty innocent, innocent guilty, the fact is I quit. View quote
Octavio Paz
When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with. View quote
Wangari Maathai
The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation. View quote
Jared Leto
As they have dared, so shall I dare. Dare to tell the truth, as I have pledged to tell it, in full, since the normal channels of justice have failed to do so. My duty is to speak out; I do not wish to be an accomplice in this travesty. My nights would otherwise be haunted by the spectre of the innocent man, far away, suffering the most horrible of tortures for a crime he did not commit. View quote
Émile Zola
We have before us the ignoble spectacle of men who are sunken in debts and crimes being hailed as innocent, whereas the honor of a man whose life is spotless is being vilely attacked: A society that sinks to that level has fallen into decay. View quote
Émile Zola
Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it - my honor! View quote
Émile Zola
Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims. View quote
Peter McWilliams
It is a temptation to ponder the wondrous workings of a fate which has left only the guilty dead and only the innocent alive. It is almost too remarkable. The chief villain on whom blame is placed - some of the defendants vie with each other in producing appropriate epithets - is Hitler. (Robert H. Jackson)
What was important - that they punished if you're innocent, because that puts everybody, you know, puts fear in everybody. View quote
Miloš Forman
Considering how readily musicologists criticize one another – witness the merciless footnotes (and reviews) of so many books and articles – the innocent bystander must find it strange that they remain unwilling to venture judgments about the quality of the music around which they work...But it is hard to see what can be the purpose of musicology if not to advise people on what to hear and how to hear it. Separating out the good, the bad and the indifferent, and helping listeners enjoy the best, is surely the least we can offer society in return for our keep. View quote
Daniel Leech-Wilkinson
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being. View quote
Victor Hugo
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. View quote
Terry McMillan