Innocent

Famous quotes containing the word innocent:

“The innocent brightness of a new-born Day
Is lovely yet;
The Clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 10:16.

Jesus to his disciples.

“The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)