1. The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. -William Cowper
2. The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. -Clint Eastwood
3. Innocence is a kind of insanity. -Graham Greene
4. The innocent and the guiltless may not ask the apologies since one has not, even the clue of it. -Ehsan Sehgal
5. It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t. -Mignon McLaughlin
6. The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of mankind. -Kurt Chambers
7. Innocence ain’t all it’s cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don’t know any better. That’s innocence -Joe Hill
8. Ignorance is not innocence but sin. -Robert Browning
9. Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm. -Graham Greene
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10. Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue. -Anatole France
11. Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
12. It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. -Voltaire
13. Innocence, once lost, can never be regained; Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost. -John Milton
14. Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. -Robert South
15. Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise. -Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
16. The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. -John Updike
17. There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. -Anonymous
18. Innocence tinctures all things with brightest hues. -Edward Albert Counsel
19. The artificial is always innocent. -Frank O’Hara
20. Innocence is always unsuspicious. -Thomas C. Haliburton
21. Innocence is a language only mother nature teaches. -Jasmina Siderovski
22. Innocence is its own defense. -Benjamin Franklin
23. One person’s trauma is another’s loss of innocence. -Jodi Picoult
24. We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty. -Leonard Peltier
25. The innocent is the person who explains nothing. -Albert Camus
26. Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you. -Deepak Chopra
27. The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. -William Butler Yeats
28. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. -Mahatma Gandhi
29. Innocent people have been drawn into someone else’s conflict. -Mark Wiley
