Innocence Quotes - Page 22

• We each begin in innocence.
  We all become guilty.

  Leonard Peltier

  Guilty

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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

  Maya Tiwari

  Personality, Sensitive, Type

  Maya Tiwari (2005). “Ayurveda: A Life of Balance : the Complete Guide to Ayurvedic Nutrition and Body Types with Recipes”

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• The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen. suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, May, Might

  "Zen and the Birds of Appetite".

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• Love, wonder, joy & awareness are the gifts of innocence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Joy, Wonder

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• Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty (or even charge you with a crime), no right to a jury trial, no right to confront your accuser, no right to a court-appointed attorney (even if the government has just stolen all your money), and no right to compensation for the property that's been taken.

  Harry Browne

  Taken, Rights, Government

  Harry Browne (2000). “The Great Libertarian Offer”, Liam Works

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• To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)

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• ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

  Minor White

  Children, Mean, Eye

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• Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Beauty, Song, Art

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Compassion, Animal

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Heart, Blessing, Giving

  'The History of Sir Charles Grandison' (1754) vol. 3, letter 32

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• He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

  Charles James

  Guilt, Trying, Levels

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• There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

  Jocelyn Murray

  Battlefields

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• Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

  Jo Nesbo

  Childhood, Firsts, Facts

  "The Past Is A Foreign Country" by Jo Nasbo, www.nytimes.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

  Lena Dunham

  Purity And Innocence, Survivor, Demand

  "Why Lena Dunham Spoke Out About Her Rape So Many Years After It Happened" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. December 10, 2014.

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• Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

  Joseph Butler

  Light, Action, Virtue

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• Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone else, we are fortifying the experience of guilt within ourselves. Like blood on Lady MacBeth's hands, we cannot remove our own guilty feelings as long as we are judging others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Blood, Hands, Judging

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.38, Penguin

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• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Nature, Punishment

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Faces, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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• I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

  Coolio

  Nice, Guy, Done

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

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• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Children, Innocent, Obligation

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

  Stephen Breyer

  Fighting, People, Helping

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