Innocent Quotes

Discover a curated collection of Innocent quotes that capture simplicity, kindness, and the quiet strength of a clear conscience. From gentle reflections on childhood wonder to thoughtful reminders about empathy and trust, these lines offer calm perspective without cynicism. Whether you're seeking a soothing thought for a busy day, a spark for journaling, or a balanced note for conversation, you'll find words that uplift without preaching. Take a breath, read slowly, and let light, sincere ideas invite clarity, compassion, and renewed hope.

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

Stephen King, Author

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

Horace, Poet

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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

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"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"

Malcolm X, Activist

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

Voltaire, Writer

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"Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman"

Anais Nin, Author

"We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent"

Ronald Reagan, President

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"Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

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"When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

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"Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

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"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job"

Richard M. Nixon, President

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"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people"

Jimmy Carter, President

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"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature"

Kin Hubbard, Journalist

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"We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

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"It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer"

William Blackstone, Judge

"Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders"

Chris Rock, Comedian

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"Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss"

George Mason, Statesman

"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty"

Edward Coke, Businessman

"In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

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

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries"

Kenzaburo Oe, Writer

"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette"

Ed Markey, Politician

"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"

Jared Leto, Actor

"I said to myself, where are we living? In the United States of America where you're innocent until proven guilty, or Nazi Germany with the Gestapo calling?"

Tommy Bond, Actor

"There's a lot of money with a lot of big law firms that have a tremendous amount at stake by getting the right language to convince the right jury that my client is either innocent or that the opposition is guilty"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

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

Cicero, Philosopher

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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

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"There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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

George Orwell, Author

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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water"

Maya Angelou, Poet

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"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

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

Paul Simon, Musician

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"Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

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"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"

Barack Obama, President

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"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

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