Top 1200 Innocent Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

What kind of system do we have when innocent people can sit on death row for 30 years?

...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

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

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes.

I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

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

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

According to deontology it is wrong to kill an innocent human being, period.

Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy

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

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

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

Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.

Innocent droplets of rain make almost all events quite natural.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.

You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

We were innocent victims. (Angelia) Yeah, and I’m the tooth fairy. (Bride)

I'm not totally innocent, and I do date. But as a young woman, I also demand respect.

I am a voice for innocent animals who are being neglected and dumped by the millions at shelters.

When the wicked want to bring down the innocent, they aim for a loving heart.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

Terrorists bombard complete cities, such as Fallujah, Baghdad, innocent women and children.

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

Well,' I shrug, all innocent, 'we all ride our little hobbyhorses, don't we, Mr. Peel?

Unborn babies - that is, fetuses, embryos, and even 'zygotes' - are innocent human beings.

Censure pardons the ravens but rebukes the doves. [The innocent are punished and the wicked escape.]

Our willingness to believe the news is, in many cases, not entirely innocent.

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

At 3, I played an innocent game of doctor, minus the stethoscope and medicine bag.

As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.

I am no longer taking part in the intentional, premeditated murder of innocent beings.

An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

Kantians are saddled with absolutist views, Aristotelians are accused of vagueness, and there is almost no horror to which Consequentialists are innocent of, according to some critics. While all these families of views have been victimized in these ways, Consequentialists have gotten the worst of it. I think this may have something to do with the fact that Kant and Aristotle are acknowledged to be great philosophers, and we tend to read the greats sympathetically, while Consequentialism is a family of views not rooted in the work of a single great man to whom this kind of deference is owed.

as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

I have played innocent characters that are inherently me, but I have a sensual side, too.

The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.