Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Innocent Quotes
The thing is, you don’t have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That’s contradictory. If a person is innocent of crime, then he is not a suspect. (US Attorney General – in that position at the time)
He said: “I will make him as innocent as a virgin.” He thought a moment, and then said, “I will make him as innocent as an unborn virgin;” which covered the ground.
It is better 100 guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.
The innocence of children is an adult myth. The reality is children’s extreme vulnerability; their storms of anger and irrationality and their dramatically imaginative lives, which conjure monsters and heroes and set them in motion. Those imaginations sometimes indulge crazy fantasies of revenge and annihilating indication. The vulnerability, anger and extreme fantasies of children have […]
The innocent who could laugh with joy didn’t dare to because they were sitting beside a guilty friend who didn’t dare to.
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don’t deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I’m innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don’t own a gun. Now they’ve come for the first amendment, and I can’t say anything […]
To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
