Innocent Quotes

I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.

You know, nobody likes to see innocent people die. Nobody wants to turn on their TV on a daily basis and see havoc wrought by terrorists.

I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

When John Murtha, for example, said the Marines are killing innocent civilians in cold blood.

The terrorists can kill the innocent, but they cannot stop the advance of freedom.

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.

To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

I don't think everybody has a right to a weapon which can be used to kill innocent people and maybe threaten the life of a president of the United States.

I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

God has joined the innocent with the guilty.

I would like to add I'm innocent. I am not guilty.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

There are those who'll turn innocent occasions to their advantage.

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

Every previous era looks innocent.

You're lying through your fangs," Iggy accused. Fang tried to play innocent--but "innocent Fang" is an oxymoron, so it didn't work.

It may be romantic to search for the salves of society's ills in slow-moving rustic surroundings, or among innocent, unspoiled provincials, if such exist, but it is a waste of time.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

And really, there is nothing more innocent and cruel than a child.

He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

To remain innocent may also be. to remain ignorant.

[O]ften art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. . . .

Every American deserves their day in court. Every American is innocent until proven guilty. These are core values enshrined in our founding document - the United States Constitution.

When surprised and excited and innocent Gus emerged from Grand Gesture Metaphorically Inclined Augustus, I literally could not resist.

...every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance towards the innocent.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

The mere title of lawyer is sufficient to deprive a man of the public confidence. ... The most innocent and irreproachable life cannot guard a lawyer against the hatred of his fellow citizens.

No day is without its innocent hope.

I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.

You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

He wondered if she'd mind if he threw her down on the blanket and tore off her clothing. (..) She looked heartbreakingly innocent. Alex sighed. She'd probably mind.

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

She's too young. Too innocent. Too human. For what I'm becoming.

We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.