Innocence Quotations

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

WWI is a romantic war, in all senses of the word. An entire generation of men and women left the comforts of Edwardian life to travel bravely, and sometimes even jauntily, to almost certain death. At the very least, any story or novel about WWI is about innocence shattered in the face of experience.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their hospitals, and their places of worship. For, as they must bear the burdens of our mistakes, so are they in their innocence the repositories of our hopes for the upward progress of humanity.

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

I've got a massive actor girl crush on Carey Mulligan, so I'd love to be buddies with her. She just oozes this joyful, natural innocence and always brings a nice emotional depth to her character.

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

My wide eyes make me look much younger without make-up, and although it's fun to have a line in innocence corrupted, I doubt I'll get to play the vampy vixen or a Hedda Gabler or Lady Macbeth.

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

Tony Curtis was a joy to work with. He had a curious innocence that is very young and wise at the same time.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

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

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

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

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

In retrospect, the political and cultural climate in the early '60s seems both a time of innocence and also like a sultry, still summer day in the Midwest: an unsettling calm before a ferocious storm over Vietnam, which was not yet an American war.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

I was greeted as Miss Lamarr in dimly lit restaurants. Personally, I liked the idea of escaping from all that bland, blonde innocence and thought the whole thing was very funny, but I don't think Hedy found the comparisons very amusing.

One by one I will disprove the accusations, and I will restore my innocence and my honor,

I don't know exactly what evidence they have against my client, but I can tell you he is innocent. We'll be able to prove his innocence in that case just as we proved he was innocent of the rape charge.

Mr. Graham, your honor, stands on his presumption of innocence and rests, I decided the best way to keep the jury focused on the weakness of the state's case was to rest right behind them.

Mr Black asserts his innocence without qualification... (and) has, at all times, acted in good faith.

Sex traffickers or pimps debriefed by the FBI indicate approximately 20-40 percent of the victims forced or recruited into prostitution are juveniles. As of today, 25 field offices are investigating child prostitution matters in support of the Innocence Lost National Initiative.

She was so young, inexperienced and unlearned and yet she was able to accomplish these amazing things. The fact that she is a woman in those dark times of stupidity and arrogance brought innocence and feminine power to that period.

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

I don't think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn't have exclusionary rules, we wouldn't have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn't have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There's an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

Guilt and innocence were not really at issue here. It's clear that he violated the statute.

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Kids have this amazing ability to counter-attack what adults create around them. For me and my friends, the war was trying to rob our innocence, so we created these games. I realize now we were using our innocence to rob the war.

I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.

He is probably physically incapable of doing the sort of thing they are suggesting he was doing. It takes a lot of work to cut through a limb. He maintains his innocence completely.

But when she had information that according to her would help demonstrate the president's innocence ... she selfishly refused to provide it to the grand jury or anyone.

Based on the scope and character of the similarities it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious act.

He (Cooper) does maintain his innocence and will defend himself in court if indicted.

He crossed over the line that divides and adult from a child by violating the innocence of five young girls.

Had it not been for the DNA testing done by, and in some ways, forced by the Innocence Project, these people would still be incarcerated or on Death Row. The Innocence Project has helped save lives.

He went to bed and slept the sleep of the good-for-nothing which, by an anachronism not a single songwriter has yet struck, is proven to be more sound than that of innocence

He insists on his innocence and will defend it vigorously.

My stepmother appeared when I was about 9. My brother was sent off to an institute in Scotland & my sister & I were sent to school. As my stepmother's ideas were then wholly Quaker, mixed with a naive & charming innocence & a little snobbery, it was one dotty epoch on top of another. I always remained terrified of my father.

I was with him in the store and I was with him in bed when he was taken. Overnight everything was changed. Innocence was gone. Things I experienced that night, I never even dreamed of happening. It had a negative effect on my life but I made the best of what I had. I didn't let it destroy me.

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

I will do everything in my power to make sure he gets a fair trial and that the presumption of innocence is alive again in that courtroom.

It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.

I was the quintessence of sweetness and innocence as an Alice in Wonderland-ish little girl, so I guess no one ever expected such darkness from me.