Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.
It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.
For years, the Bush Administration eviscerated all the military and legal structures that were designed to separate the innocent from the guilty in the 'Global War on Terror.'
There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.
There is an innocence in admiration: it occurs in one who has not yet realized that they might one day be admired.
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
I Don't care which president is sucking your dick at the moment, I will not be a party to the killing of innocent men!
A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
Dragline: Anything so innocent and built like that just gotta be named Lucille.
Sultan: This is Wasseypur. Here, even a pigeon flies with one wing, and uses the other to guard his innocence.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.
