#excuse

Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it. ↗

— Gary Cox

#choose #excuses #existentialism #existentialist #philosophy

If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#consideration #excused #money #moral #others

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. ↗

— Aesop

#excuse #serve #tyrant #will

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime. ↗

— Alexander Alekhine

#considered #crime #drunk #excuse #fact

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#apology #attempt #being #condemnation #evil

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#best #collective #confessions #crime #discovery

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ↗

— Russell Baker

#done #excuse #just #progress #really

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#boss #did #earth #excuse #exist

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself. ↗

— Murray Walker

#i #interrupt #me #myself #now

Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dreams #excuses #goal #goals #happiness