Innocence
The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness.
The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness.
The state or quality of being not chargeable for, or guilty of, a particular crime or offense; as, the innocence of the prisoner was clearly shown.
Simplicity or plainness, bordering on weakness or silliness; artlessness; ingenuousness.
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Innocence Quotations
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
Henry David Thoreau
All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
Adam Smith
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
John Updike
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
Arthur Miller
Innocence Translations
innocence in Danish is uskyld
innocence in Dutch is onschuld, onbedorvenheid
innocence in German is Unschuld, Arglosigkeit {f}
innocence in Italian is innocenza
innocence in Norwegian is uskyld, uskyldighet
innocence in Spanish is inocencia
innocence in Swedish is oskuld
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