Top 1200 Innocent People Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She wasn't innocent now, but she didn't know what to do about it. This was her life: magic and shame and secrets and teeth and a deep, nagging hollow at the center of herself where something was most certainly missing.

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.

This record was kind of, like, innocent. It's called 'The Innocents.' So it's the concept of being young enough to not really understand the implications of your decisions and then kind of feeling the weight later and being, like, but I was innocent. Like, did I deserve this?

To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

People have died in jail that have been innocent.

The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

People are innocent until they are proven guilty, and we will make sure that stays the case.

If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.

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

I believe that people want to be free. And that we face an enemy that murders innocent people to try to shake our psychology to get us to leave.

Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our mistakes that we commit. But once you get your Realization, your innocence is re-established, manifests, and you become innocent. Your attention becomes innocent.

All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Heroes understand the vast moral gulf between those who target the innocent and those who target those who target the innocent.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

Through His Atonement, He heals not only the transgressor, but He also heals the innocent who suffer because of those transgressions. As the innocent exercise faith in the Savior and in His Atonement and forgive the transgressor, they too can be healed.

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

No one is innocent, and people are allowed to criticize everyone.

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January 1999). But I've been interrupted these last few months. It deals with all of the things we do, in an innocent way, to cover up the truth.

We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

I can't stand people who have all the money but do not even bother to help innocent children in any small way they possibly can.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

I don't think anyone's a failure as long as they're still innocent. Just a little. They may lose everything good in them but as long as they believe just a little in something very small, they're still innocent. To fail is to lose every bit of innocence.

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

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

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

What we saw in Tiananmen Square 31 years ago was a massacre, a massacre of innocent people that came from Hong Kong but also Chinese people to protest.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people. We don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.

The killing of innocent people is always wrong.

In every war, innocent people die.

Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

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

I believe that we shouldn't be supporting any form of aid towards countries that are killing people that are innocent.

People bring up Willie Horton or some other political bombshell in the past, but what they're not being intellectually honest about is if we do not work on early release, if we do not rehabilitate 95 percent of the people who go into the prison system and come out, far more innocent people are going to be harmed.

Innocent people never deserve to die no matter what.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.

I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that continued [throughout his life].

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate in a way that can reduce the likelihood of guns killing police officers and other innocent people.

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

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Attacking innocent people is always obscene.

Without a union, the people are always cheated, and they are so innocent.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.