Pardon Quotes

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Everything, Condemn

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Humanity, Law

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire

Nature, Law, Full

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

Political, American, Choose

We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Often, Annoy

Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi

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

Adjust, Glowing, Halo

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden

Done, Wrong, Belong

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms

Here, Anyone, Insulted

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

Life, Good, Hope

I remember in 'Law of Desire,' where I played a homosexual, that people were more upset that I kissed a man on the mouth than I killed a man. It's interesting to see how people can pardon you for murdering a man, but they can't pardon you for kissing one.
Antonio Banderas

Law, Remember, Desire

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
Thomas a Kempis

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
William Gurnall

Peace, God, Past

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux

Another, Might, Ourselves

George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
Martin Sheen

Bad, Working, Expression

When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.
Dave Attell

Loved, Kid, Native

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
William Allingham

Hope, Same, Mine

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo

Hope, Solitude, Bitter

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

God, Regret, Committed

Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
John Goodman

Front, Orchestra

My way of thinking is to create a situation where we rally everyone together and create peace and pardon people, to not forget about the past - because we need to learn from it - but to mainly think about the future.
Michel Martelly

Peace, Future, Forget

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
Alberto Fujimori

Power, Legal, Her

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Barbara Olson

Power, Someone, Special

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

House, White, Phones

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
John Podesta

Legal, Wise, President

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
Cindy Sheehan

War, Done, Somebody

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

Him, Place, Away

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