Innocent Quotes - Page 6

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

  John Berger

  Ignorant, May

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• Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

  William Faulkner

  Believe, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.105, Modern Library

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• If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

  Abdallah II

  Believe, People, Killing

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• It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Hurt, Needs, Frightened

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.568, Open Road Media

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• You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Jobs, Believe, History

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• Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Gun

  "Accidental Gun Control: Bullets Get Expensive". www.npr.org. May 21, 2008.

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• Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Children, Men, Innocent Man

  "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 9, 2002.

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• He's arm'd without that's innocent within;
  Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

  Horace

  Wall, Literature, Innocence

  "Imitations of Horace: With An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot and the Epilogue to the Satires".

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• A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.

  Robert Casey

  Children, Believe, Abortion

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• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Men, Awake At Night

  Nature ch. 8 (1836).

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• They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Fun, Ems

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

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• [I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Should Have

  John Locke (1956). “The Second Treatise of Government: (An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End of Civil Government), And, A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.20, Library of Alexandria

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• Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

  Chuck Grassley

  Law, Justice, Enforcement

  "Congress Targets Mortgage Fraud: Justice for Victims, Jail for the Guilty". Tri-State Defender, February 12, 2009.

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• Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

  Richard Steele

  Silly, Men, Opposites

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• If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on our part, is to maintain and uphold the constitution and institutions of our country, and to protect an injured, innocent, and persecuted people against misrule and mob violence.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Country, Freedom, America

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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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• History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

  Abigail Adams

  Men, Hands, Historical

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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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• Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  Albert Camus

  God, Night, Order

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• Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?

  Ron Paul

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Years, People

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• If pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, People, Justice

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• I think whenever you go through something of that nature, you get to see who's really on your side and who's really there for you. That happened in my case. And it really let me understand that no matter how small of a decision you make, it's going to have a subsequent action or reaction, and something that started out very innocent turned into the tragedy that it was.

  Donte Stallworth

  Thinking, Decision, Tragedy

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