“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
Ian McEwan book Atonement
Source: Atonement
As quoted in A Walt Disney World Resort Outing : The Only Vacation Planning Guide Exclusively for Gay and Lesbian Travelers (2002) by Dann Hazel and Josh Fippen, p. 211
Context: I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child "innocence". The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.
“Let the guilty bury the innocent, and let no one change the evidence”
Ian McEwan book Atonement
Source: Atonement
“Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence.”
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) German poet, critic and scholar
“Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798)”, Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms, Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, trans. (Pennsylvania University Press:1968) #31
Athenäum (1798 - 1800)
Context: Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher
Source: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
With the century, vol. 3
“There could never be innocence in a world without justice.”
Tim Bowler book Frozen Fire
Source: Frozen Fire
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Source: Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975), Chapter IX, The Price, p. 106
Emily Giffin (1972) American writer
Source: Heart of the Matter
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Quotes 2000s, 2004, 25th Anniversary of Coalition for Peace Action, 2004