“No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden”
Elizabeth Bowen
“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”
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.”
Lewis H. Lapham
“Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.”
“These were innocent people just going about their daily business and these (terrorists) chose to take them out. We don't want to forget that,”
Dan Sullivan
“The innocent who could laugh with joy didn't dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn't dare to”
Mark Twain
