Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
My idea of an acceptable person is someone that is ready to accept my ideas. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The first step in freeing men from external chains was to emancipate them from the internal chains of false beliefs and ideals. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I do think that we are sometimes, as directors, guilty of portraying or asking our actors to behave in certain ways that… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
In civilized societies, we spend our lifetimes trying to become what is socially acceptable. We're dark and we're light. We all have… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
There are certain ways of being that people don't find acceptable or very pleasant in regular life, but you go out on… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Error is not just acceptable, it is necessary for the continuation of life, provided it is not too great. A large error… — Jacques Lecoq Copy Share Image
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting… — Nas Copy Share Image
Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is… — Hans-Peter Durr Copy Share Image
Parents' tolerance of violence is so different to their tolerance of sexuality. If violence is involved in the sexuality it's somehow perceived… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
It's just like calling homosexuals 'gays.' Gay means happy! You know, it's just to try to dilute it so that it becomes… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
High national emotions are permissible when a soccer team is playing precisely because they are impermissible at most other times. There aren't,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
What I'm suggesting is we are going to look back, and we're going to see what happened in Syria, and we're going… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
I have found there are real objects under in intelligent control being seen on the ground and in our skies worldwire. The… — George Fawcett Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is to prepare to hear some day the music of the spheres that I am always turning my ears to… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
