Maria Montessori
Educator, Physician
"Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future."
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Innocence
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society."
Bruce Springsteen
Musician, Singer-songwriter
"The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"Every harlot was a virgin once."
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"A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing."
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"There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced."
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"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
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"I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost."
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"For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever."
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"There is no aphrodisiac like innocence."
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"The innocent is the person who explains nothing"
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"The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails."
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"Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience"
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"Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion."
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"I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience."
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"The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence."
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"Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence."
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"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."
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"If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned."
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"Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent."
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"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
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"Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences."
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"The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life."
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"We become innocent when we are unfortunate."
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