Quotes with innocent

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  • W. H. Auden No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Andrew Young No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
    Andrew Young
    Amercan activisit and minister (1932 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Sir Edward Coke One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
    Sir Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge, and politician
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  • Malcolm Bradbury Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Publilius Syrus Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Ayn Rand Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
    The Romantic Manifesto (1969)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Jonathan Swift Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Benjamin Todd Jealous Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
    Benjamin Todd Jealous
    American civic leader and politician (1973 - )
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  • George Orwell Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Richard Lovelace Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Barry White The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • John Updike The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Susan Sontag The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Butler Yeats The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Albert Camus The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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