Innocence Quotes

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  • ... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other" revolutions (the American revolution being considered unique and somehow unrepeatable anywhere else in the world) have remained constant, have dictated, have obscured, the realities of empire, while apologists for overseas American interests have insisted on American innocence, doing good, fighting for freedom.

  • Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.

    Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America
  • Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

  • Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

    Elderly   People   Age  
  • They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.

    Movie   Fun   Ems  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.

    School   Order   Way  
    Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.50, Arcade Publishing
  • Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

  • I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

    Fall   Miracle   Magic  
    Song: Them Heavy People, Album: The Kick Inside, 1978
  • I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

    Way   Innocence   Shame  
    Source: www.rollingstone.com
  • Folks working late, I had a babysitter. I ain't about to sit here and name her. I was almost 8 when she came in late, woke me up with a game to play. Did a few things that it's hard to say. Told me to keep that secret safe. I'm trying to act like it ain't real. Had my innocence just stripped from me, and I still don't know how to feel.

    Real   Games   Play  
    "Lecrae Makes Music Concerned With The Soul". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 10, 2015.
  • The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

    Children   Pain   Sunset  
    FaceBook post by John Jakes from Dec 22, 2014
  • Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

    Buddhism   Self   Desire  
  • The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century

  • For when man comes to front the everlasting God, and look the splendor of His judgments in the face, personal integrity, the dream of spotlessness and innocence, vanishes into thin air: your decencies and your church-goings and your regularities and your attachment to a correct school and party, your gospel formulas of sound doctrine--what is all that, in front of the blaze of the wrath to come?

    Dream   Integrity   Party  
    Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.109
  • The world is living today in what might be described as an era of carnality, which glorifies sex, hates restraint, identifies purity with coldness, innocence with ignorance, and turns men and women into Buddhas with their eyes closed, hands folded across their breasts, intently looking inward, thinking only of self.

    Sex   Hate   Ignorance  
  • Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

  • The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.

    Believe   Humor   Mean  
  • Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? But people are very much confused between fun and the pleasure. The pleasure is nice to begin with and horrible to end with. But fun is a treasure. Anything that is full of fun you remember all your life.

    Love   Wisdom   Fun  
  • To the innocent there are neither cherubim nor angels.

    Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.390
  • The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

    Sex   Believe   Fall  
    Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 396, to Eric Fletcher, July 9, 1951.
  • The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

    Beautiful   Time   Enemy  
    The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"
  • The deeds of love are less questionable than any action of an individual can be, for, it being founded on the rarest mutual respect, the parties incessantly stimulate each other to a loftier and purer life, and the act in which they are associated must be pure and noble indeed, for innocence and purity can have no equal. In this relation we deal with one whom we respect more religiously even than we respect our better selves, and we shall necessarily conduct as in the presence of God. What presence can be more awful to the lover than the presence of his beloved?

    Respect   Sex   Party  
    Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.65, Yale University Press
  • All happiness is a form of innocence.

    Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
  • I wish to you sunshine, my dear one, my dear one. And treetops for you to soar past. I wish to you innocence, my child, my child. I pray you don't grow up too fast. Never know pain, my dear one, my dear one. Nor hunger nor fear nor sorrow. Never know war, my child, my child. Remember your hope for tomorrow.

    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.11, Delacorte Press
  • Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.

  • We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane.

    Eden   Victory   Example  
  • I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

  • I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

  • Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

    Power   Sides   Innocence  
    Nadine Gordimer (1956). “Six Feet of the Country: Fifteen Short Stories”
  • People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

    Children   Sight   People  
    Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.322, Delphi Classics
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