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Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

Abraham Maslow

The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence, PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, nor do i want it. I want my name back, period.

Christopher Jordan Dorner

When we take revenge against another, we lose some of our innocence.

Patrice Redd Vecchione

A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.

Latin Proverb

The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.

William Shakespeare

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Mignon McLaughlin

But innocence has nothing to dread.

Jean Baptiste Racine

Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

Leonard F. Peltier

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Angela Carter

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly

Samuel Johnson

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Louise Bogan

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

Honore de Balzac

Every life is march from innocence,through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Lyman Abbott

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

JosÈ BergamÌn

Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible to apply

Warren E. Burger

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Charles James Fox

No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

Henry Fielding

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Lewis H Lapham

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

Arthur Miller

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Mason Cooley

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence

Bruce Springsteen

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.

Nicholas Gordon

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

Louis Kronenberger

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