Innocent Quotes - Page 16

• I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

  Zachary Levi

  Taken, Childlike, Small Parts

  RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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• Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Blood, Despair

  Mark Twain, John Sutton Tuckey (1980). “The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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• Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

  Cornel West

  Order, Matter, Assuming

  Source: genius.com

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• If Saddam's regime and survival are threatened [by invasion], he will have nothing to lose, and may use everything at his disposal... If weapons of mass destruction land on Israeli soil, killing innocent civilians, the experts I have consulted believe Israel will retaliate, and possibly with nuclear weapons... Nor can we rule out the possibility that Saddam would assault American forces with chemical or biological weapons.

  Edward Kennedy

  Believe, Mass Destruction, Israel

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• We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

  Amy Ray

  Being Free, Causes, Empty

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• Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

  Noam Chomsky

  Memories, Law, Presumption Of Innocence

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• I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Children, Husband, Home

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• Maybe we should always show pictures. Bin Laden, pictures of our wounded service people, pictures of maimed innocent civilians. We can only make decisions about war if we see what war actually is - and not as a video game where bodies quickly disappear leaving behind a shiny gold coin.

  Jon Stewart

  War, Games, People

  "JON STEWART Offers Brilliant, Heartfelt Reason For Releasing Osama Bin Laden Death Photos" by Noah Davis, www.businessinsider.com. May 5, 2011.

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• An image that is unseen can't sell anything. It is pure, therefore true, beautiful, in one word: innocent. As long as no eye contaminates it, it is in perfect unison with the world. If it is not seen, the image and the object it represents belong together.

  Wim Wenders

  Beautiful, Eye, Perfect

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• I like playing... I don't know. I think that's what was really exciting about playing Knives, too, from the beginning was that you get to kind of do both of that. She's almost like two different people, but that's what's cool about it, because I get to show her growth and that's the thing that's really cool about Knives, you get to really see her grow up from being meek and innocent and naïve at the beginning to this powerful girl who is going for what she really believes in and what she really wants.

  Ellen Wong

  Girl, Powerful, Growing Up

  Source: collider.com

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• Love is a crocodile just above the water line waiting to attack the innocent herbivore of my freedom.

  Dov Davidoff

  Love Is, Water, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 08, 2012

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• It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

  Gene Sharp

  War, People, Gains

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• Terrorism and war have something in common. They both involve the killing of innocent people to achieve what the killers believe is a good end.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Believe, People

  "A Just Cause, Not a Just War" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

  Peter McWilliams

  Revenge, Hands, Needs

  Peter McWilliams (1993). “Ain't nobody's business if you do: the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society”, Mary Book / Prelude Pr

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• An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.

  Tichina Arnold

  Cpr, Class, Breastfeeding

  "Read Ingredient Labels" by Tichina Arnold, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2013.

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• The loss of innocent life is a tragedy for anyone involved in it, but the numbers are really very low.

  Paul Bremer

  Loss, Numbers, Tragedy

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• It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, War, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It's like our go-to notion of innocent and secure mythology of American life. I was always amazed when people would come up to me and say that 'Far from Heaven' was exactly what it was like back then. [laughs] I was so disinterested in what it was 'really like' in the 1950s when I was putting the film together, I was only interested in what it was like in movies.

  Todd Haynes

  People, Laughing, Heaven

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I'm innocent!

  Mindy McCready

  Drug, Drink

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• The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the McCarthy era. They were systematically undermining the nation's ability to defend itself while waging a bellicose campaign of lies to blacken McCarthy's name. Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Thinking, Animal

  Ann Coulter (2003). “Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, p.20, Crown Forum

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• I don't think Julia Roberts is as innocent as her image suggests. You have to be a really smart cookie to create an image as clean and pure and on-the-money as hers.

  Sharon Stone

  Smart, Thinking, Cookies

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

  Gerald Kogan

  People, Justice, Knows

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• Life swarms with innocent monsters.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Monsters, Strange Phenomena, Swarms

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.101

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• I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.

  Martina Hingis

  Believe, Taken, Talking

  "Hingis tests positive for cocaine", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.

  Stephen Colbert

  Media, People, Would Be

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