#pardon

He who pardons easily invites offense. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#invites #offense #pardons #who

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#appointed #basis #choose #clout #communist

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#good #good behavior #hope #life #only

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo. ↗

— Ted Nugent

#glowing #halo #i #me #pardon

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#away #could #dying #get #governor

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#constantly #house #kind #pardon #phones

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

#did #excesses #god #i #losses

Secretary of War Stanton used to get out of patience with Lincoln because he was all the time pardoning men who ought to be shot. ↗

— Elihu Root

#get #lincoln #men #ought #out

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#like #must #obscure #pardoned #talent