“Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (1686), line 70.
“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”
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Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Source: The Judges
“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293
“The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
On defendants in the Moscow Trials and on innocents betrayed by Communist Party members, as recounted by philosopher Sidney Hook, as quoted in Intellectuals (1990) by Paul Johnson, p. 190; though this might easily be interpreted as implying that anyone who had failed to conspire against Stalin deserved to be shot, Hook implies that he meant that the betrayal of innocents was justified. Henry Pachter is also quoted in Intellectuals as saying that Brecht had made similar remarks in his presence, and had added "Fifty years hence the communists will have forgotten Stalin, but I want to be sure that they will still read Brecht. Therefore I cannot separate myself from the Party."
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Una persona completa, all'occorrenza, sa mostrare la sua essenza di innocente angelo o pericoloso diavolo.
Source: prevale.net
Maimónides (1138–1204) rabbi, physician, philosopher
Sefer Hamitzvot [Book of the Commandments], commentary on Negative Commandment 290, as translated by Charles B. Chavel (1967); also in Defending the Human Spirit : Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society (2006) by Warren Goldstein, p. 269
Kenneth Tynan (1927–1980) English theatre critic and writer
Review of The Changeling, by Thomas Middleton (1961), p. 75
Tynan Right and Left (1967)
“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.