Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
Innocence can be more powerful than experience.
Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.
Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.