#innocence

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#fair #fruits #increase #innocence #remorse

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. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#criminals #executed #free #go #innocence

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#innocence #justice #she #sometimes #stumbles

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#defends #innocence #like #polished

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#proceed #southerner #those #tolerant #usually

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law. ↗

— William Pepper

#alive #because #court #dies #establish

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#babe #between #earth #house #innocence

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#innocence #memories #art

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been. ↗

— Aberjhani

#faith #healing #inner-peace #innocence #life-and-death