Innocent Quotes - Page 33

• If my Dad doesn't like you, you will know. My Mom is just too innocent to ever lie. She doesn't even cuss.

  Channing Tatum

  Mom, Dad, Lying

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is old people's rhetoric. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This mindset needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from the children. Something I can learn from children is transparency. They are innocent, straightforward, and have no biases. I relate children to simplicity and I think that my friendship with children has a much deeper meaning than others.

  Kailash Satyarthi

  Children, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Enlightenment is the natural state of consciousness, the innocent state of consciousness, that state which is uncontaminated by the movement of thought, uncontaminated by control or manipulation of mind.

  Adyashanti

  Mind, Enlightenment, Movement

  Adyashanti (2012). “True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness”, p.15, Sounds True

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• You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.

  Joe Randazzo

  Suicide, Ideas, People

  "Media condemn Charlie Hebdo attack as assault on freedom of expression" by Anne Penketh, Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2015.

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• A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Bombs, Done

  "Clinton urges caution over Iraq as Bush is granted war powers". William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at a Labour Party conference in the UK, quoted in The Independent, October 3, 2002.

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• I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

  Barack Obama

  People, Politics, No Patience

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• The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

  Barack Obama

  Politics, Holy, Mankind

  'The Rachel Maddow Show', www.nbcnews.com. June 4, 2009.

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• Landmines are among the most barbaric weapons of war, because they continue to kill and maim innocent people long after the war itself has ended. Also, fear of them keeps people off the land, and thus prevents them from growing food.

  Kofi Annan

  War, Land, Long

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• It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

  Twiggy

  Children, Animal, Care

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• Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mirrors, Hypocrisy, Childhood

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby

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• Christ's mercy is the mighty healer; even to the wounded innocent.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Christ, Mercy, Healer

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• I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.

  Doug Davidson

  Change, Loss, Opportunity

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• In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers. They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people.

  John Ashcroft

  War, Moving, Color

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• We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian .... they are not civilians or innocent.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Military, Men, Israel

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• In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.

  Jim Gerlach

  Suicide, Israel, Facts

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• Laws which legitimize the direct killing of innocent human beings through abortion or euthanasia are in complete opposition to the inviolable right to life proper to every individual; they thus deny the equality of everyone before the law.

  Pope John Paul II

  Law, Abortion, Killing

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• I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

  Anne Rice

  Love, Hands, Together

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• Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Love, Self, Feelings

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1974). “Frankenstein, Or the Modern Prometheus: The 1818 Text”, p.117, University of Chicago Press

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• A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Innocent Man, Example

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• Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence of the most wicked, if men might not justly defend themselves against injustice by their own natural right, when the ways prescribed by publick authority cannot be taken.

  Algernon Sidney

  Fall, Taken, Men

  Algernon Sidney (1805). “Discourses on Government”, p.431

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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• Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you never know all the side effects. I look at the pharmaceutical companies as the drug barons, the psychopharmcologists as the mules and the patients as the victims. They're innocent because they think they're being cured.

  Robert Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Two

  "Robert Evans: 'Any man who says he can read a woman's thoughts is a man who knows nothing'". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2002.

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• Jesus is the masterpiece. The thieves are minor works. Why are they there? Not to frame the crucifixion, as some innocent souls believe, but to hide it.

  Roberto Bolano

  Jesus, Believe, Soul

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• Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forced books on to people who have subsequently forgotten all about it. Meanwhile, on my shelves sit many orphaned books loaned to me over the years by trusting, innocent souls - some as long ago as the Seventies.

  Lynne Truss

  Regret, Book, Dvds

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• God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

  Katherine Howe

  Soul, Devil, Shields

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