Innocent Quotes

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life.

Reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

Suiciders are willing to kill innocent life in order to send the projection that this is an impossible mission.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

As Muslims it is our duty to condemn the killings and our duty to ensure that those on the fringe do not shame our community by justifying the killing of innocent people.

I look at Messi, and he makes me laugh. A beautiful footballer who is still like a kid. A world superstar, but still a kid. Innocent, you know. He just plays.

I think that the older I get and the more comfortable I get with myself, the more I realize that art is about relinquishing control of your emotions and being vulnerable and innocent.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

A person who is innocent is extremely humble.

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything?

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by

We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

We killed an innocent girl

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, "Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent."

We have to give our poor, innocent, and undeserving-of-our-badness characters trouble in order to make them characters in a story.

There is no innocent sleep so innocent as sleep shared between a woman and a child, the little breath hurrying beside the longer, as a child's foot runs.

We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

How wicked, my brothers, innocent milk must always seem to me now.

I wonder if these death penalty proponents would still hold that it's worth some risk of error if it were their loved one who was murdered by the state, though innocent.

It's time to "stop being ambivalent." ... They (groups like the Islamic State) have no ideology beyond violence and chaos and the slaughter of innocent people.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind.

We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.