Excusable Quotes

18 quotes by 15 authors

There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great… — Ambrose Bierce
Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be… — A. P. Herbert
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest… — Lyndon B. Johnson
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so — Sacha Guitry
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would… — H. L. Mencken
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking… — A. P. Herbert
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything… — Napoleon Bonaparte
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result — Yukio Mishima
Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing… — Daniel Handler
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the… — Aristotle
There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. — Ambrose Bierce
One of our biggest spiritual lessons is to understand that everyone is doing the best they can at any given moment. People can only do… — Nate

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