(467 quotes found)
“If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.”
Italian Proverb
“Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor”
Latin Proverb
“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”
Antonin Scalia
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
Yoko Ono
“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end”
Lise Hand
“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”
Irving Howe
“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 wat”
Maya Angelou
“Innocence is always unsuspicious.”
Thomas C. Haliburton
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