#pardon

So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her. ↗

— James Lileks

#pardon #marriage

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#pardoning

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#against #fellows #our #sin #success is

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