Innocent Quotes - Page 9

• Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Cheer, Writing, Spirit

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• There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

  John Ray

  Sweet, Men, Animal

  "Humanimal". Book by Vergil Z. Ozeca, p. 171, 2010.

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• They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable. All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield another such a gem.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Memorable, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.147, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stories, Fables, Innocence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3088, Delphi Classics

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• At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have
  any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Thinking, Tea

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Perfection, Innocence

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.390

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• Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in keeping with the pedagogical principles of our great- grandparents, according to which children are viewed as crafty creatures, dominated by wicked drives, who invent stories and attack their innocent parents or desire them sexually. In reality, children tend to blame themselves for their parents' cruelty and to absolve the parents, whom they invariably love, of all responsibility.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Responsibility, Reality

  Alice Miller (2012). “The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness”, p.169, Anchor

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• The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign power to another people for the creation of a new state. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their numbers increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Numbers, People

  Bertrand Russell, Ray Perkins (Jr.) (2002). “Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell: A Lifelong Fight for Peace, Justice, and Truth in Letters to the Editor”, p.411, Open Court Publishing

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• It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Father, Fall, Son

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• The main thing on film is you want to be innocent to the moment.

  Richard Jenkins

  Want, Film, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

  Peter B. Lewis

  Want, Flow, Philanthropy

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• I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

  Henry Waxman

  Thinking, People, President

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• Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

  A. A. Milne

  Europe, Two, People

  "Peace with Honour: An Enquiry Into the War Convention". Book by A. A. Milne, 1934.

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• We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Suffering, Victim

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• I want to create a culture of life where every innocent human life is welcome to the world. I know those are difficult cases, but I am prolife. And I understand we've got to go through the Supreme Court.

  Bobby Jindal

  Culture, World, Want

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Even when I'm trying to be straightforward and honest and my comments are innocent, inevitably they get turned into something sort of salacious.

  Megan Fox

  Trying, Honest, Straightforward

  "Megan Fox and Will Arnett Talk TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, Childhood Ninja Turtle Memories, Going from Digital Transformers to Turtles and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 6, 2014.

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• During this period Steen and Fox were killed trying a single-engine instrument approach at Moline. Then Campbell and Leatherman hit a ridge near Elko, Nevada. In both incidents the official verdict was 'pilot error,' but since their passengers, who were innocent of the controls, also failed to survive, it seemed that fate was the hunter. As it had been and would be.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Fate, Errors, Safety

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• It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Hatred, Important

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. May 24, 2002.

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• When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Innocent Man, Hands

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• You have to tap into the child in you. If you can get to that innocent place, then you're golden. That was the subconscious goal for me.

  Ken Marino

  Children, Goal, Golden

  "Ken Marino Talks BAD MILO!, Milo’s Tender Puppet Eyes, VERONICA MARS Movie, and EASTBOUND & DOWN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

  Rand Paul

  War, Rights, Independence

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I wish all the mean people, if you want to be mean to each other, just buy a country together and blow each other up. Then we'd have no terrorists left. Like, don't kill innocent people for no reason. It's not fair. We love everybody. We'd even like them if they said they're sorry. It's not fair that innocent people are getting hurt. It makes me sad.

  Tara Reid

  Country, Hurt, Sorry

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

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• It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

  Jane Jacobs

  Romantic, Moving, Rural Life

  Jane Jacobs (1961). “The Death and Life of American Cities”

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• If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, People, Down And

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

  Tony Abbott

  Responsibility, Iraq, Self

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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