#apology

If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#apology #boy #bush #country #hope

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets. ↗

— David Letterman

#apology #bombed #certificate #chinese #clinton

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#apology #began #begin #dictated #dictators

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ↗

— Plato

#plato #socrates #death

one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry. ↗

— Ntozake Shange

#apology #forgiveness #independance #strength #sympathy

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'! ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#apology-and-attitude #ego #forgiveness #humility #mockery

What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not. ↗

— James Madison

#founding-fathers #not-an-apology #religious-freedom #freedom

A sincere apology is analogous to authentic repentance". ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #repentance #r-alan-woods

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth. ↗

— José N. Harris

#apologize #apology #feelings #truth #vida