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I didn't bother to ask him why he didn't wait for someone from the American Legation, for I knew the reason. French methods are a little old-fashioned by our cold standards: they believe in the conscience, the sense of guilt, a criminal should be confronted with his crime, for he may break down and betray himself. I told myself again I was innocent
— Graham Greene
No plea will protect the innocent from the unjust judge.
— Aesop
Jesus does not enjoin his disciples to marry, but he does sanctify marriage according to the law by affirming its indissolubility and by prohibiting the innocent party from remarrying when the guilty partner has broken the marriage by adultery.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.
— Dorothy Sayers
God is innocent. Noah built in a flood plain.
— Anonymous
[Pilate] took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
— Anonymous
Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God   had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to take away, when Adam wickedly fell.
— John Calvin
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
— George W. Bush
All I hope is that the American coalition is doing its best to prevent civilian casualties and the killing of innocent people.
— Elie Wiesel
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
— Richard Baxter
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical Christianity. To refuse to critique the system or the status quo is to fully support it—which is a political act well disguised. Like Pilate, many Christians choose to wash their hands in front of the crowd and declare themselves innocent, saying with him, "It is your concern" (Matthew 27:25). Pilate maintains his purity and Jesus pays the price.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.
— Mark Twain