#innocent

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#appearance #avoiding #deprived #enjoyments #evil

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#girl #her #innocent #knows #maiden

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#drove #i #innocent #know #many

He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the resources or the strength, ultimately, to handle the situation. ↗

— Jared Leto

#innocent #lot #person #really #resources

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#asylum #country #drift #innocent #insane

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.' ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#believe #better #convicted #defense #even

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#also #i #innocent #lot #mature

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#against #because #capital #capital punishment #children

The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#basic #children #conceivable #crimes #duty