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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.»
«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»
«If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent.»
«It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.»
Author: Voltaire
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Philosopher,
Writer)
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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
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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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
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Critic,
Journalist)
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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)
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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.»
Author: Jack Handy
(
Writer)
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About:
Animals
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Keywords:
beat,
birds,
hop,
hopped,
hopping,
hops,
hop up,
innocent,
merrily,
move around,
moving around,
pipe,
piped,
pipe in,
piping,
plotting,
secretly,
shoe,
steel,
steels,
watching,
window
«I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Philosopher)
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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.»