Innocence Quotes

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

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.

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I think there's an innocence to me.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.