Innocent Quotes - Page 2

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

I am no longer taking part in the intentional, premeditated murder of innocent beings.

An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

In a society of criminals, the innocent man goes to jail.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

If you hung him for being a good singer, you'd be hanging an innocent man!

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

Only love with its science makes us so innocent.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

I’d do almost anything for you,” Simon said quietly. “I’d die for you. You know that. But would I kill someone else, someone innocent? What about a lot of innocent lives? What about the whole world? Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that—I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

Brigid: I haven't lived a good life - I've been bad, worse than you could know. Spade: That's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere.

They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

Be innocent, wise and ninety-five.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.