#innocence

I prefer to be left alone with my books. ↗

— Alison Weir

#jane-grey #solitude #innocence

It takes a very long time to become young. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#innocence #knowledge #wisdom #youth #youth

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. ↗

— Voltaire

#guilt #innocence #judgment #justice #mercy

In the 1950s kids lost their innocence. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap. In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it. In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference. In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future. In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world. In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#innocence-lost #societal-degredation #change

Always changing genres, making very different films is a good idea. It's a way of making yourself feel vulnerable again, getting back to that innocence. As is working within a circumspect budget. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #back #budget #changing #different

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ↗

— Albert Camus

#appeal #being #essence #every #expresses

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

— Angela Carter

#beginning #compatible #conscience #innocence #parent

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#innocence #like #lot

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#australia #away #beginning #believe #came

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve