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Letter "I" » innocent
«If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.»
Author: Lord Salisbury
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
doctors, innocent, military, theologian, theologians, The Doctors, The Military, wholesome
«It is a sort of waking dream, which, though a person be otherwise in sound health, makes him feel symptoms of every disease; and, though innocent, yet fills his mind with the blackest horrors of guilt»
Author: William Heberden
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
blackest, black person, fills, guilt, horrors, innocent, of sound mind, symptoms, waking
«If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.»
Author: Italian Proverb
| Keywords:
innocent
«It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
condemn, condemning, guiltier, guilty, He Is Guilty, innocent, innocents, innocent of, risk, saving
«In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
cold, corruption, criticism, example, excluded, excludes, excluding, for example, innocent, innocents, innocent of, institutions, in all, mushroom, mushrooms, Open society, senates, societies, such institutions, wind
«Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
borne, excusable, hence, innocent, lying, metallic, offers, syllogism, syllogisms, unavoidable
«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.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bills, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, commit, definition, enable, innocent, peaceable, revolution, shed, tax, The State, this year, violent
«I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe.»
«I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
abhor, abhorring, As of, consequence, discoveries, innocent, scientific, scientific discovery, the scientific, vivisection, whole blood
«Look like the innocent flowerBut be the serpent under it.»
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