Quotes About Excuse

This is true across every single society; we project grossness onto a racial or gender subgroup or caste. A big part of social subordination and discrimination is to ascribe hyper-animality to other groups and use that as an excuse for subordinating them further.

Love is an excuse to be stupid

Are you using your pain as an excuse or as a source of strength?

Camus (Albert) 'The welfare and safety of the people is always the alibi of the tyrant.

Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

Human reason can excuse any evil.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Knowledge is more important than capital. Lack of capital is a common excuse for not starting a business venture.

Isn't horrible weather great? It means I don't have to wash my car!

You [Jews] did slay Christ, you did lift violent hands against the Master, you did spill his precious blood. This is why you have no chance for atonement, excuse, or defense.

Prayer is easier than we think. we want to think it is too hard or too high and holy for us, because that gives us an excuse for not doing it. This is false humility. We can all do it, even the most sinful, shallow, silly, and stupid of us.

Monotheism by whatever name has been the rationale for war and genocide forever. And the Unchosen, the inferior Others, are always demonized as an excuse to oppress them.

Must is not the same as can, Lyra'. 'But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse!

Can is not the same as must." "But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Can is not the same as must. But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Where is your homework? Mr. McNulty asked. It's with Ariel. There's no such thing as homework, I said. What? I mean, I left it at home.

You are a miserable excuse for a boyfriend! You are, like, the safety school of boyfriends. You are the beige of boyfriends. You are the plain yogurt of boyfriends.

Closure. I keep hearing that word. ... As soon as a show has a sense of closure, it gives you an excuse to forget you've seen the damn thing.

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing, and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling that is forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts or external events are only an excuse made up by the mind.

I'd Begin to imagine my life in a foreign country, some faraway land where, if things went wrong, i could always blame somebody else, saying I'd never wanted to live there in the first place.

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious…garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

For what can excuse a man in the eyes of other men for lack of strength?