To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
The uniqueness of executive clemency lies in the president's power to act without weighing guilt, innocence and legal principle.
Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.
The protective system of scapegoats is finally destroyed by the Crucifixion narratives as they reveal Jesus' innocence and, little by little, that of all analogous victims.
Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
There's an innocence to Ozzy Osbourne. He's mingling, but he's somewhat detached.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.
I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.
I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'