Children Are Innocent Quotes

#1. And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

Michael Haneke

#2. For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

Clint Eastwood

#4. I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#5. The choice I mean is to protect our own innocents from the seraphim, instead of slaughtering theirs."
"There are no innocent seraphim, said the wolf."
"That's what they say when they kill our children.

Laini Taylor

#6. Children and babies are the most innocent, vulnerable, helpless creatures on the planet. They're relying on you for everything. Their lives will be defined by the choices made by the adults around them.

Catelynn Lowell

#7. Children are remarkably cruel in their candor. In their cruelty, they are innocent

Rose Christo

#8. What do you call a planet where bad guys stroll through life with success draped around their shoulders like a King's cloak, while random horrors are visited upon the innocent heads of children? I call it Earth.

Jordan Sonnenblick

#9. Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#10. And thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

J.M. Barrie

#11. I still collect toys. Toys are a reflection of society. They are the tools that society uses to teach and enculturate children into the adult world. Toys are not innocent.

Chris Burden

#12. My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'

Madhuri Dixit

#13. Twelve million illegal immigrants later, we are now living in a nation that is beset by people who are suicidal maniacs and want to kill countless innocent men, women and children around the world,

Fred Thompson

#14. The heterosexual emotions of young children can find a natural, wholesome and innocent outlet with other children; in this form they are a part of play, and like all play, they afford a preparation for adult activities.

Bertrand Russell

#15. In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

Malala Yousafzai

#16. I could weep for all the innocent women and children who were burned and maimed in London - and it doesn't help at all to know that German women and children are suffering the same.

Ken Follett

#17. They still live. They breathe, they love each other, they find joy in the world around them for no other reason than because they are children. They are resilient. They will always rise above. Always. It is a curious facet of the innocent young.

Amelia Fisher

#18. But ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public.

Akira Kurosawa

#19. What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'

Pope Pius XI

#20. We've been talking about this for a good while, the immorality of drones, dropping bombs on innocent people. It's been over 200 children so far. These are war crimes.

Cornel West

#21. My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

Madonna Ciccone

#22. What would one do if one were forced to choose between saving an innocent child's life or engaging in unchaste behavior? This is, after all, the choice that some unfortunate women are put to - sell their bodies, or see their children starve.

Courtney Milan

#23. Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.

Jane Howard

#24. The job is hard enough when the victims are men. But when I see violence done to the innocent, to women or children? It is never easy to observe, or investigate for that matter.

Shelley Gray

#25. Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Mason Cooley

#26. there are times when children
might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not
to death, but to life,

Arthur Schopenhauer

#27. All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

Sarah Hall

#28. The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.

Robert Casey

#29. Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.

Carolyn Haywood

#30. Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

Gustave Flaubert

#31. When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

Dennis Lehane

#32. Children have such an innocent view of their world and surroundings; every thought is a garden full of wonder.

C.J. Heck

#33. Children are always looking at the world as if it was for the first time in their lives. So, we should always look to the world with the eyes of a child. I am not saying be naive, I am saying be innocent in the sense of discovering things.

Paulo Coelho

#34. My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives.

Malala Yousafzai