Words matter. These are the best Innocence Quotes from famous people such as Kathy Burke, Johan Huizinga, Irving Howe, William Pepper, Mumtaz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There’s a great difference between innocence and ignorance.
Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
I’ve kept alive my childlike innocence. I don’t let anything or anyone dampen my zest for life. Now, that’s very important.
There is a fine line between guilt and innocence.
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I’ve been particularly interested in American Indian texts.
Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
We were wild-eyed hippies from the late ’60s. We still had the exuberance of the mind-expanding ’60s – that Tolkienesque, Zeppelin, androgynous, wood nymph, forest fairy kind of innocence. It sounds stupid now, but we felt we were changing the world with music.
Even as a child, you can recognise the innocence of Piglet or the strange adult qualities of Eeyore. You just know you are with friends and family.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
I think it’s too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.
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.
The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president’s power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.
I think that when you emigrate, when everything you took for granted disappears, it’s a kind of loss of innocence. When you’re a kid, the world as you know it is just there. Suddenly, you emigrate and that’s no longer the case. It’s a break in reality that parachutes you into adulthood.
Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Some people think of the ’50s as a time of innocence, but they are misremembering it or reinventing it: if you look at the papers of the time, they are filled with dread and anxiety.
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.
Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for… my memories aged nought to ten… are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.
The kind of people that love ‘The Rocketeer’ are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they’re almost always nice people to bump into.
There’s an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He’s mingling, but he’s somewhat detached.
In the two-room flat where I live in Japan, I try to take time every day to step away from the bombardment of e-mails and opportunities and papers around my desk, for an hour, and just sit on our 30-inch terrace in the sun, reading something sustaining, whether ‘The Age of Innocence’ or the latest by Colm Toibin.
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one’s innocence with the loss of one’s prejudices.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence – putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply – if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.
My kids don’t think, for one minute, about where people are born, what language they speak, what colour they are. There’s an innocence about young people that is only influenced by older people.
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.
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can’t help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.
The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I’ve rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
In ‘Age of Innocence,’ the opening flowers, that’s a metaphor for the film, the Victorian veneer with the malevolence beneath it. We attempted to show that with flowers that start as sweet and then slowly become malevolent.
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
While you’re finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
Sometimes innocence is a good thing but I think life, experiencing different situations, different clubs, gives you a lot of knowledge.
Ariana has completed me. I felt I’d lived all my high points, till the baby came and life’s been on a high ever since. It feels like with her I’m discovering innocence all over again.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don’t have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
Remorse is virtue’s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
It makes me so happy to see that there’s still so much innocence left in villages.
Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, ’til about ’68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little… edgy.
The price of wisdom is innocence. So, I have definitely become wiser but sadly a little less innocent.
Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s and 1960s when we naively believed that by holding a mirror up to the world we could help – no matter how little – to make people aware of the human condition.
I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that’s not really there.
People constantly complain to me about news coverage of criminal cases. ‘What happened to the presumption of innocence?’ they ask at almost every turn. Well, I’m tired of it.
Childhood is all about innocence. Being constantly surrounded by cameras and shutterbugs, makes children lose that innocence. It’s terrifying and worrying, to say the least.
