Innocence Quotes - page 13

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. (Malcolm Turnbull)
One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. View quote
Danielle de Niese
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances. View quote
Levi Woodbury
I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence. View quote
Peter Slipper
The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her. View quote
Richard LaGravenese
In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. View quote
Stephen Bayley
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law. View quote
William Pepper
There could never be innocence in a world without justice. View quote
Tim Bowler
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality? View quote
Germaine Greer
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. (Germaine Greer)
And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. View quote
John Grisham
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. View quote
John Lydon
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. View quote
John Lydon
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. View quote
Antonin Scalia
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. View quote
John Adams
Every man ought to have the fullest opportunity of establishing his innocence if he can. View quote
Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Shall we ever understand that ignorance is not innocence? View quote
Richard Francis Burton
The England of our day would fain bring up both sexes and keep all ages in profound ignorance of sexual and intersexual relations; and the consequences of that imbecility are particularly cruel and afflicting. ... Shall we ever understand that ignorance is not innocence? View quote
Richard Francis Burton
I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. (George Will)
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. View quote
Graham Greene
Ridiculous as the idea may have been for her bluestocking mother to send brother and sister over alone like this, the fact was that Judy was protected as much by her curiosity as by her innocence. And then there was this other thing about her, too. You know all that razzle-dazzle about people being born in Original Sin and all that rot? Well, maybe it's rot and maybe it isn't. I mean I wouldn't slit my throat from ear to ear, just because I'd found out for sure that most people are. But she wasn't. That was the thing. She simply wasn't. I'm positive of that. View quote
Elaine Dundy
Speak gently to the erring: For is it not enough That innocence and peace have gone, Without thy censure rough? View quote
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney