Absolve Quotes

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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other on the previous Shrove Tuesday;… — Jean de Joinville
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody elseÂ¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any… — Steven Pinker
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt. — Shekhar Kapur
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. — Anthony Kennedy
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. — Emil Ruder
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt. — Cindy Chupack
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. — Camille Paglia
We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have the same affection and… — Sarah Bernhardt
In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the… — Jean Baudrillard
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. - — Janette Turner Hospital
Condemn me, it does not matter: history will absolve me. — Fidel Castro
Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of… — Richard M. Weaver
Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing… — Roland Allen
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to… — Zygmunt Bauman
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is… — Primo Levi
The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of… — Keith Olbermann
Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it… — George Tenet

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