Top Innocence Quotes

Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic taboos of our tribe - and you want to turn him into a carbon copy of every fourth-rate conformist in...

I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in...

Innocence Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.

(n.) The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.

(n.) The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.

(n.) Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Well, did he do it?She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant did it or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- th...

When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.

Isaiah grabs my hand and leads me away from the police...My heart stutters. He's holding my hand. A guy is holding my hand. Touching it. Like his fingers entwined with mine. I've never held a guy's ha...

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentenc...

We Lannisters do have a certain pride, said Tyrion Lannister.Pride? Catelyn snapped. His mocking tone and easy manner made her angry. Arrogance, some might call it. Arrogance and avarice and lust for...

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for lif...

My hands are of your colour; but I shame To wear a heart so white.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

The ship told you the guilty systems recognizes no innocents. I'd say it does. It recognizes the innocence... only to violate it.

There's a little war in progress here. There won't be anything left of the place if it goes on at this rate. (But it's hard to feign innocence if you've eaten the apple, he reflected.) And it looks to...

I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualizati...

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden, Jacques said. And then: I wonder why....Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road--and the road has a trick of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seem...

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

Atheism is aristocratic the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?