Innocent Quotes

"The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

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

Jack Lynch, Statesman

"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

"I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em"

Alex Winter, Actor

"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

"Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation"

Richard Jewell, Celebrity

"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

"Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine"

Sean Penn, Actor

"She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season"

Shiri Appleby, Actress

"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy"

Milos Forman, Director

"We always see the innocent victims in the stories, and I am a little bored with that. I am much more interested in the price paid by the people who can fly"

Bill Williams, Celebrity

"I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room"

Jack Ruby, Criminal

"I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it"

Pontius Pilate, Politician

"In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003"

Jim Gerlach, Politician

"Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras"

Mark Kennedy, Politician

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

Eason Jordan, Journalist

"Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately"

Alec Baldwin, Actor

"Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked"

Charles Lawrence, Politician

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

Martha Stewart, Entertainer

"I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways"

Laurie Lee, Poet

"Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children"

Jane Howard, Journalist

"There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist"

Mia Farrow, Actress

"The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit"

Tom Petty, Musician

"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet"

Sam Brownback, Politician

"I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people"

Randy Forbes, Politician

"Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely"

Joe Moore, Celebrity

"I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent"

Jesse Ventura, Politician

"Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible"

Tony Danza, Actor

"The government can still conduct clandestine searches of innocent people's private information such as library, medical, and financial records. This is wrong and should have been addressed in a true compromise"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces"

Tim Murphy, Politician

"I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways"

Kirsten Dunst, Actress

"I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was really innocent"

Mark Ruffalo, Actor

"In too many cases, the moms, the dads, the sisters and brothers of children with cancer must stand by a hospital bed and watch helplessly as this horrible disease consumes the life of an innocent child"

Michael McCaul, Politician

"We are at war to liberate Iraq, to protect the people of the United States and other countries from the devastating impact of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists or the Iraqi government to kill thousands of innocent civilians"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"It would be easy to define terrorism as attacks against human rights and international humanitarian law forbids attacks against innocent non-combatants which is often the definition used for terrorism"

Joichi Ito, Businessman

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