“The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
Voltaire
“Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.”
William Saroyan
“He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.”
Charles James Fox
“Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were”
Horace
“Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.”
Susan Sontag
