Pastoral Resources

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.

The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.