Innocent Quotes - Page 7

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

Court games aren't fair. They don't judge men by their worth, and they aren't about what's just. Guilty men can hold power their whole lives and be wept for when they pass. Innocent men can be spent like coins because it's convenient. You don't have to have sinned for them to ruin you. If your destruction is useful to them, you'll be destroyed.

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

God made all pleasures innocent.

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

It's not about whether you are innocent or guilty. It's about whether or not you can prove you're innocent. If you can't prove you're innocent, then you're considered guilty. It's been flipped: Now it's guilty until proven innocent.

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

For my job, I act tough. I'm not tough. On the street, I don't go out beating people up and this and that. I used to joke one time on the television station that I never... Everybody that I beat up deserved it. I never beat up an innocent person.

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

What Hamas and the Palestinian people are doing is legitimate resistance against the Israeli occupation. Our resistance is confined to the territories inside Palestine and only targets the Israeli occupation. We are not blood-mongering killers who kill innocent people around the world.

The cross, as poignant as it is, is understandable from a human perspective: an innocent man was murdered by crooked politicians and religious leaders. But the empty tomb-- what can you say? Only a supernatural God could accomplish that.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

The most innocent man, pressed by the awful solemnities of public accusation and trial, many be incapable of supporting his own cause. He may be utterly unfit to cross-examine the witnesses against him, to point out the contradictions or defects of their testimony. And to counteract it by properly introducing it and applying his own.

An innocent bureaucratic snafu.

Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.