Innocent Quotes

• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

  Douglas Sirk

  Character, Innocence

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Age, Way, Innocence

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• The innocent is the person who explains nothing

  Albert Camus

  Life, Innocence, Persons

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

  Moses Harvey

  Mind, Flavor, Genuine

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocence, Fear Nothing, Clear

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• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Time, Enemy

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

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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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• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Innocence, Proven

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• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  Saddam Hussein

  Innocence, Guilty, Not Guilty

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• Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Selfless, Innocence

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  There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Howard Zinn (1993). “Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian”, p.118, South End Press

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• The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

  Bianca Jagger

  Innocent Person, People, Innocence

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• We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Innocence, Unfortunate

  "Nymphes de Vaux". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1662.

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• I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

  Puff Daddy

  Innocence, Guilty, Truth Is

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• Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

  Jonathan Swift

  Blessed, Blessing, Power

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• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Lying, Innocence

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• The soul is innocent and immortal, it should never die ungodly in an armed madhouse.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Depression, Soul, Mental Illness

  Allen Ginsberg, Lewis Hyde (1984). “On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg”, p.391, University of Michigan Press

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• It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

  William Blackstone

  Justice, Suffering, Innocence

  "Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries".

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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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• The artificial is always innocent.

  Frank O'Hara

  Innocence, Artificial

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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  Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Honesty, Integrity, Writing

  1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.

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• At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Heart, Tissues

  "How to Get Through What You’re Going Through: Who’s Your Daddy?" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Grisham

  Men, Innocent Man, Serial Killer

  John Grisham (2010). “The Confession”, p.104, Random House

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