#innocent

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. ↗

— Scott Turow

#experience

There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#guilt #injustice #innocence #innocent #justice

Well honey, seems innocent enough to me. He came in and fell in love with your buns. ↗

— Lorena Bathey

#fell-in-love #innocent #love #love

Is that what your fucking religion taught you? Killing innocent people. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#innocent #religion #religion

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#begin #boy #correspondent #equivalent #foreign

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown. ↗

— Anthony Anderson

#i #innocent #realized #victim

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. ↗

— William Blackstone

#escape #guilty #innocent #suffer #ten

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation. ↗

— James Boswell

#among #conversation #excellencies #good #i

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

#fight #help #innocent #people #prison

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist. ↗

— Mia Farrow

#bring #description #exist #hard #important