The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains.
The innocent died along with the guilty. And if you did nothing, then only the innocent died.
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
It is better to run the risk of sparing the guilty than to condemn an innocent.[Qu’il vaut mieux hasarder de sauver un coupable que de condamner un innocent.]
Innocence is its own Defence.
Innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn’t have to fear and be afraid.
Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, more hideous when thou show’st thee in a child than the sea-monster!
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
Dogs. They are better than beings because they know, but do not tell.
Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
