#innocent

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#begin #boy #correspondent #equivalent #foreign

I believe we are still so innocent. 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. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#before #believe #believes #compassion #cup

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#away #direction #former #had #human

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#being #called #class #games #human

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ↗

— William Blackstone

#escape #guilty #innocent #suffer #ten

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#fight #help #innocent #people #prison

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist. ↗

— Mia Farrow

#bring #description #exist #hard #important

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty. ↗

— Edward Coke

#innocent #spares #threatens #who

I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#glad #guilty #i #innocent #knows

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#celebrity #entertainment #fundamental #gossip #greed