Zitat des Tages über Unschuld / Innocence:
I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
I think there's an innocence to me.
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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.
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.
When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
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.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
