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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Justinian I
Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollar, we wouldn't have any innocent bystanders.
Chris Rock
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For decades, the violence in the Middle East has claimed a multitude of innocent civilian victims: Men, women and children, Arab and Israeli.
John Conyers
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Elizabeth I 
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Ronald Reagan 
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Maybe... there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year's idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, 'Let's not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let's get the innocent.
Mark Thomas 
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
Juan Goytisolo
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I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.
Randy Forbes
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As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
Paul Simon
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The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.
James T. Walsh
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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
Charles Edward Montague
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
W. H. Auden
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A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
Mohandas Gandhi
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
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Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?
Karl Shapiro
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