Innocence Quotes - Page 4

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

Innocence has nothing to dread.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Innocence is a kind of insanity

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

You're innocent when you dream.

Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

There is an innate innocence in the concious Vata personality. A delicate, sensitive, and aware nature reveals the graceful Vata component of any type.

What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

All prisons are brimming over with innocence. It is those who cram their fellows into them, in the name of empty ideas, who are the only guilty ones.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!

I use innocence in my demeanor like a Venus flytrap.