The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
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.
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.
Mom and dad probably told you I've been arrested. I'm innocent. I want you to know that.
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.
...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.
We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next 'Batman' movie?
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
Evelyn Mulwray: Hollis seems to think you're an innocent man. Jake Gittes: Well, I've been accused of a lot of things before, Mrs. Mulwray, but never that.
Clark: My cousin in-law, whose heart is bigger than his brain... Eddie: I appreciate that, Clark. Clark: ...Is innocent.
Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter: [to the Warden] I'm innocent. I've committed no crime. A crime's been committed against me.
Marty: I speak. You do not speak. Your job is to just sit there and look innocent.
The Unmarried Mother: Let's face it. Nobody's innocent. Everybody just uses everybody else to get what they want.
Bob Morton: What are your Prime Directives? RoboCop: Serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law.
Wallace: Hey... is that the cops? I'm an innocent victim in here! I was attacked by a coked up whore and a - a fuckin' crazy dentist!
I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked.
