Browsing Topic Best Innocence Quotes

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.

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

Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings,Innocence sweetens my last black breath,Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

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

I think we look back at times past with fondness because we were younger. Life had not yet begun pecking away at our innocence like buzzards on fresh road kill.

I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

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.

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind’s most basic duty to protect the innocent.

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the universe. Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.

Ryan Stout, a straight-arrow-looking kind of guy, shocks the crowd into laughter with his inventive interplay between innocence and a jarringly twisted point of view. He goes from loony to weirdly logical. With him, it’s more than clever writing; his comedy is based on clear and clever thinking.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

I want to make things that put me in the position of innocence, that recreate the feeling of innocence in you.

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy….A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

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

If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, ‘Look at my two noble friends — they are dumb, but they are loyal.’ I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

I never had innocence.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

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