Innocence Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

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.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.