Innocent Quotes - Page 5

• A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friday, Jesus, Easter

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

  Sean Penn

  Sacrifice, Medicine, Soldier

  Open Letter to the President George W. Bush, www.snopes.com. November 3, 2002.

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• The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Lying, Two, Literature

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

  Bette Davis

  Race, Rats, Innocence

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• Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Teens

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

  John Updike

  Self, Essentials, Literature

  1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.

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• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Children, Women, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

  Arthur Miller

  Country, People, Insane

  "With respect for Her Agony - but with Love" in LIFE magazine, February 7, 1964.

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• Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well.

  Michael McCaul

  Country, Children, Cancer

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• It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Recovery, Loss, Soul

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• Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

  Tony Danza

  Kids, Long, Tides

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

  Conrad Burns

  Military, Home, Men

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• Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

  Karl Shapiro

  Innocence, Dies, Unspoken

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Stanley Kunitz, David Ignatow (1998). “The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late”, p.7, University of Illinois Press

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• I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Degrees

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• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Christian, Innocence, Sin

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

  Eason Jordan

  People, Information, Sin

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• No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

  W. H. Auden

  Playing Games, Class, Innocence

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• Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

  Karl Shapiro

  Wise, Unique, Library

  Karl Jay Shapiro (2004). “Creative Glut: Selected Essays of Karl Shapiro”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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• Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Past, Japan

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• I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

  Kevin McAleer

  Life, Death, Insanity

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

  Yiyun Li

  Innocent Person, Heartless, Crime

  Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• As a result of the [9/11] attack and the killing of nearly 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries and killed innocent people in their countries Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Country, Two, America

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• I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's -what it's like to- to sit on Texas death row and your thoughts are laying on that gurney, convicted but innocent and being put to death.

  Kerry Max Cook

  Thinking, Texas, Death Penalty

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• The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

  Thomas Sowell

  Ideas, Political, Would Be

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• To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

  John Berger

  Ignorant, May

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