Innocence Quotes

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.