Acceptable Quotes
528 quotes by 486 authors
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This…
— Albert Bandura
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I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
— Todd Barry
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we…
— Lewis Black
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I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the…
— David Bowie
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I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of…
— Jo Brand
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make…
— Jo Brand
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
— Julie Burchill
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I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label…
— Herman Cain
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Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and…
— Adam Clayton
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... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since…
— Barack Obama
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who have made progress…
— John Climacus
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God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are…
— Thomas Brooks
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A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
— Alexander Whyte
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The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy to relieve themselves…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my…
— Will Arnett
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