Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.

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.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

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

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.

The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.