Innocence Quotes

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

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

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

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

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

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

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

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

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

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

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.

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.

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

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.

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.

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.