#innocence

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#cowardice #sin #innocence

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children ↗

— Howard Zinn

#innocence

The dangerous one was Ren. Innocent though the white tiger he appeared to be, he was a compelling predator. Utterly irresistible -- like a Venus flytrap. So alluring, so tempting, so deadly. Everything he did was seductive and possibly hazardous to my health. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#kelsey #ren #tiger-s-curse #tiger-saga #innocence

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#innocence #like

In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#activities #age #choice #church #dry

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. ↗

— John Updike

#ever #innocence #innocent #knows #lives

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#any #arts #cannot #exist #feeling

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#american #american movies #appeal #because #deliver

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions. ↗

— John Grisham

#angle #been #congress #convicted #convictions

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#india #innocence #knows #much #offer