#innocent

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective. ↗

— Edward Teller

#believe #believes #effective #everyone #fact

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#convicts #defendants #dna #evidence #finds

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by ↗

— Alison Weir

#innocent-traitor #jane-grey #truth #life

Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#attacks #communities #everyday #exacerbated #families

Innocence is a kind of insanity ↗

— Graham Greene

#innocent #insanity #innocence

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place? ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#responsibility #voyeurism #innocence

Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cannot #disgust #first #hand #horrors

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#innocent #lie #meet #round #seldom

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone. ↗

— Ernst Zundel

#boy #cast #choir #first #him

Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#civilians #innocent #innocent civilians #killing #terrorism