Innocence Quotes

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

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

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

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

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

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.

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.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

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.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

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

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

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.

I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.

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

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.

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

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.