Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. – Lewis H. Lapham
Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. – Louis Kronenberger
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. – Maximilien Robespierre
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you’ve got to prove your innocence. And that’s not the Constitution of the United States. – Leonard Peltier
Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today. – Jackie Jackson
It doesn’t bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That’s what’s fun, her innocence. – Jeri Ryan
The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent. – Juan Goytisolo
Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there’s a certain innocence that goes. – Patsy Kensit
We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It’s a very difficult problem. – Ron Johnson
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time. – Robert Fripp
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn’t do anything wrong, you can’t then use the Fifth Amendment to say, ‘I’m not answering questions.’ – Rush Limbaugh
The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance. – Sylvia Kristel
If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. – Ward Churchill
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. – Susan Sontag
Remorse is virtue’s root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. – William C. Bryant
Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you’re charming enough, you can get away with anything. – Susan Choi
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I’ve always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did. – Sally Kirkland