Innocence Quotes - Page 12

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Not everything we do as artists has deep intent. If we push barriers, that's great, but sometimes we just do our work. Whether we make some kind of statement, consciously or unconsciously, we shouldn't take the innocence away from what we do.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.

Innocence gave me confidence to go up against reality.

Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life.

innocence is the hardest thing to prove.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.

I think there's an innocence to me.

A villain who shares one's guilt is inevitably more attractive than a hero convinced of one's innocence.

The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.