Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
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Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational term...
SUSAN SONTAG If innocence can leave guilt can come.
UNKNOWN We weren't there to judge guilt or innocence.
ANA VERLEY It was a wonderful testament to the idea of having 12 good citizens determine guilt or innocence, an...
DAVID BAUGH I knew it could go either way. I'm disappointed, but it has nothing to do with Hill's guilt or innoc...
GARY MACE Some say innocence is simply the mask of guilt.
DANYELLE SIEBEN Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftene...
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftene...
NATHANIEL P. WILLIS This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do i...
MARGUERITE OSWALD Where the guilt is doubtful, a presumption of innocence should in general be admitted.
JUNIUS Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan ...
CAITLIN MORAN In the strongest possible terms, George maintains his innocence. He's going to fight them all the wa...
LOU FREEMAN He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all ot...
CHARLES JAMES FOX He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others: So they will try to reduce all o...
CHARLES JAMES FOX No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart.
WILLIAM SAROYAN Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG This is not about guilt or innocence. The point is, it's time to turn a page.
CHARLIE LUKEN The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
IRVING HOWE But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair."
"I never did," snapped Lok...
JOANNE HARRIS I'm not going to make any judgment, guilt or innocence right now. I'm just glad I know doping contro...
RACHEL STEER Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificia...
WARREN E. BURGER It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and cr...
JOHN ADAMS Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the ...
MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost ...
SUSAN HILL All the accused have pleaded innocence.
HASTIMAL SARASWAT Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Fami...
CAITLIN MORAN Mr Johnson should remember that I am not just anyone and that he is only president of the United Sta...
MARGUERITE OSWALD There's new factual record information that needs to be here for you to decide the guilt or innocenc...
BILL MCCOLLUM Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
CLINT EASTWOOD All things truly wicked start from innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trial as we flounder in a morass of artificial...
WARREN EARL BURGER Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created ...
HORACE Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men ...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY it's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the p...
ANDERSON COOPER Had it not been for the DNA testing done by, and in some ways, forced by the Innocence Project, thes...
WAYNE SMITH This should be the age of utter innocence for a child. Hollywood should do anything within its power...
BRENT BOZELL Innocence could be lost more than once after all.
SELENA KITT Her face lit up; illuminated by the enlightenment of recognition and the innocence of surprise.
JOSS SHELDON Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, b...
JOE HILL Innocence also weighs
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE Most parents are so convinced of their little darling’s innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for ...
ANTHONY MARAIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is fu...
ELIZABETH E. BOWEN Unto the pure all things are pure.
BIBLE, TITUS 1:15 They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children w...
HARPER LEE How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eter...
ALEXANDER POPE Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
BISHOP ROBERT SOUTH Innocence is always unsuspicious.
HALIBURTON Innocent as a dove you will harm no one, but wise as a serpent no one will harm you.
HAUG An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance
PROVERB Innocence is always unsuspicious.
THOMAS C. HALIBURTON That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to belie...
LISE HAND What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to
the law.
[Lat., Quam angusta inn...
SENECA (LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA) He's armed without that's innocent within.
ALEXANDER POPE O God, keep me innocent; make others great!
[Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la gra...
CAROLINE MATILDA What can innocence hope for,
When such as sit her judges are corrupted!
PHILIP MASSINGER We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
[Fr., On devient innocent quand on est malheureux.]
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But innocence has nothing to dread.
[Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]
JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE As innocent as a new-laid egg.
WILLIAM S. GILBERT To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower:
Hold infinity in the palm of...
WILLIAM BLAKE When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I wo...
HOWARD IKEMOTO The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
CHARLES DE LINT "In innocence there is no strength against evil," said
Sparrowhawk, a little wryly. "But there is ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow
That innocence can give,
When its resistless accents flow
...
ROBERT BLOOMFIELD But thus: if powers divine
Behold our human actions, as they do,
I doubt not then but innocen...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We were as twinned lambs that did frisk i' th' sun,
And bleat the one at th' other. What we chang...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Hence, bashful cunning,
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is nothing wrong to be innocent But not novice.Being novice may deprive you dong right thing a...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He maintains his innocence, so there is nothing I can say by way of mitigation.
BILL TAYLOR Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends
ROBERT SOUTH Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn a...
ELIZABETH BOWEN It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children...
VICTOR HUGO Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS Not only are we ready to go to trial, but we are anxious to prove my innocence.
KENNETH LAY Fair quiet, have I found thee here / And innocence thy sister dear?
ANDREW MARVELL The suspect "maintains complete innocence" of all assault charges and says he has never been a membe...
DONALD PAPCSY If (Lockyer) went out there and declared (Shelley's) innocence and refused to interview him, then Lo...
KAREN HANRETTY He has maintained his innocence.
JOE WARREN I need not remind the court of the presumption of innocence.
JOEL VINCENT These twelve people who decide guilt or innocence are not legal scholars. The only law they take int...
BRIAN WICE Mystery and innocence are not akin.
HOSEA BALLOU Mystery and innocence are not akin
HOSEA BALLOU Susan Sontag was a great literary artist,"a fearless and original thinker, ever valiant for truth, a...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Innocence is always unsuspicious.
JOSEPH JOUBERT One by one I will disprove the accusations, and I will restore my innocence and my honor,
ALBERTO FUJIMORI This is an end to an era, but what has not ended is the court case, and that will have its consequen...
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SUSAN SONTAG Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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SUSAN SONTAG What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature
SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual ...
SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou...
SUSAN SONTAG My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything,'
SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them
SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth. . . the pollution of...
SUSAN SONTAG Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
SUSAN SONTAG A great private collection is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites. ...
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