- Nov 07, 2020
Innocence Quotes
Where purity meets responsibility.
These innocence quotes wrestle with what it really means to claim a clean conscience, from classic reflections on virtue and remorse to sharper commentary on accountability after harmful actions abroad. It's less about naivety and more about whether innocence can be honestly claimed once consequences unfold. For gentler reflections, see our Heart quotes.
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- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
- Feign
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
- Deception
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
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- Nov 07, 2020