An hour of innocence builds more trust than years of diplomacy.
– Abhijit Naskar
Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
– Publilius Syrus
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
– Clint Eastwood
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
– Mason Cooley
No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly.
– Tiffany Madison
No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.
– William Godwin
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
– François de La Rochefoucauld
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
– Joan Didion
We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.
– Leonard F. Peltier
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
– G.K. Chesterton
Always the innocent are the first victims. So it has been for ages past, so it is now.
– J. K. Rowling
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
– Mary Astor
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
– William Blackstone
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
– Irving Howe
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
– Ernest Hemingway
Innocence lost is supposed to be experience gained, and therefore not a bad trade.
– Patricia Hampl
Innocence is a temporary, maybe even an unreal, condition. Destined to die.
– Patricia Hampl
Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence.
– Joe Hill
You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility.
– Lionel Shriver
A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
– Queen Elizabeth II
A world marked by so much Injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.
Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
– John Milton
Trust of the innocent is the most important tool of a liar.
Maturity means losing innocence.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
– Howard Zinn
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
– Henry David Thoreau
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
– Joseph Joubert
The innocent is the person who explains nothing.
– Albert Camus
It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t.
– Mignon McLaughlin
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
– Voltaire