innocence quotes

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

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.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

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

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

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.

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

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

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.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

I’ve always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It’s the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

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

Writers are always writing about infidelity. It’s so dramatic. The wickedness of it, the secrecy, the complications, the finding that you thought you were one person but you’re also this other person. The innocent life and the guilty life. My God, it’s just full of stuff for a writer. I doubt it will ever go out of fashion.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

An honest man is always a child.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

I believe that many of my young guys lived because I didn’t waste their lives because I didn’t have the vision in my mind of how to destroy the enemy at least cost to our guys and to the innocents on the battlefields.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

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