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A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. -- Robert Fripp
hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself. -- Jilly Cooper
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy. -- Ambrose Bierce
hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater. -- Dervla Murphy
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so -- Sacha Guitry
Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result -- Yukio Mishima
Jamás es excusable ser malvado, pero hay cierto mérito en saber que uno lo es -- Charles Baudelaire
Jamás es excusable ser malvado, pero hay cierto mérito en saber que uno lo es. -- Charles Baudelaire
[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. -- Ban Ki-moon
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons. -- Margaret Atwood
He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly. -- William Law
Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. -- Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur or glory, but from conviction of national innocence, information and benevolence.... -- John Adams
The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department. -- Oren Moverman

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