Innocent Quotes

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet – when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

We are told, that the black bear is innocent; but I should not like to trust myself with him.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.