Innocent

Famous quotes containing the word innocent:

    German Flyer: Rotterdam, we destroy in two hours.
    Mrs. Miniver: There were thousands killed. Innocent people.
    German Flyer: Not innocent—they were against us.
    Mrs. Miniver: Women and children.
    German Flyer: 30,000 in two hours. And we will do the same thing here!
    Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)

    If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
    Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
    Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer’s horse
    Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)