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.
When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and...
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
Care Quotes
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.
Sexuality and sensuality exists in every women, along with innocence, and I have represented only those through my characters.
It makes me so happy to see that there's still so much innocence left in villages.
Heart Quotes
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.
The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Light Quotes
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
Peace Quotes
I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was not a normal kid, but I had a sense of innocence far longer than we let...
