Innocent Quotes

"I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty"

"I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!"

Allen Tate, Poet

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

John Updike, Novelist

"Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise"

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Politician

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

Stephen Breyer, Judge

"Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty"

Andrew Young, Clergyman

"Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique"

Karl Shapiro, Poet

"I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"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"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"Military strength in reserve is better than military strength being reigned upon the other side including all of its innocent civilians"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation"

James Boswell, Lawyer

"We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent"

Archibald MacLeish, Poet

"More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow"

William Cowper, Poet

"I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy"

Coolio, Musician

"Hamas is responsible for countless homicide bombings that have killed hundreds of Israeli citizens. They have waged a terror war with the sole intent of murdering innocent people"

Vito Fossella, Politician

"It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash"

Fred Woodworth

"The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb"

Robert Casey, Politician

"I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity"

John Lone, Actor

"People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"Terms like that, "Humane Society," are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent"

Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist

"We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children"

Ricardo Lagos, Politician

"It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners"

John Yoo, Educator

"Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win"

Tammy Bruce, Author

"There's a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad"

Phyllis George, Journalist

"Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money in the county for intoxicating liquor creates lawlessness, makes criminals, wrecks homes and brings trouble to innocent women and children"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way"

Tom Brokaw, Journalist

"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

"A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust"

Robert Casey, Politician

"There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth"

Peter Straub, Writer

"For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli"

John Conyers, Politician

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"I am not guilty, I am innocent"

Saddam Hussein, Criminal

"The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children"

Jerry Costello, Politician

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