Innocence
Innocence (or guiltlessness) is a term used to indicate a lack of guilt, with respect to any kind of crime, sin, or wrongdoing. In a legal context, innocence refers to the lack of legal guilt of an individual, with respect to a crime.
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Famous quotes containing the word innocence:
“Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)