102 Inexcusable Quotes

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Famous Inexcusable Quotes

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. — James Anthony Froude

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp

Blaming others is excusing yourself. — Robin Sharma

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. — Plutarch

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. — George Washington

Blaming others is nothing more than excusing yourself. — Robin Sharma

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis

Never make excuses for someone who disrespects you-who they are or what they do isn't a pass to treat you like trash! — Trent Shelton

God's only excuse is that he does not exist. — Stendhal

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin

Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted. - A. R. Bernard

Excuses are the crutches of the uncommitted. — A. R. Bernard

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. — Benjamin Franklin

Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monuments of nothing. — Steven Grayhm

Good intentions are not an excuse for maladministration of this magnitude. — Jean Chretien

Short Inexcusable Quotes

  • To play without passion is inexcusable! — Ludwig van Beethoven
  • When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee Williams
  • When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. — Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
  • They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable. — Melissa de la Cruz
  • What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable. — Ian Somerhalder
Inexcusable quote To be a christian means to forgive the inexcusable because god has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
To be a christian means to forgive the inexcusable because god has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Unforgivable Quotes

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin." — Fulton J. Sheen

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. — Bette Davis

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds. — Christian Dior

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you. — H. Rap Brown

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die. — Debbie Ford

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable. — Fulton J. Sheen

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. — Joe Biden

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. — Rudyard Kipling

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving! — John Cena

Unconscionable Quotes

The debates are part of the unconscionable fraud that our political campaigns have become a format that defies meaningful discourse. They should be charged with sabotaging the electoral process. — Walter Cronkite

The actions of the terrorist organizations, Hezbollah, in Lebanon, and Hamas, in Gaza, against Israel are unconscionable. Instead of working towards peace, these terrorist organizations have chosen to perpetuate the violence. — Alcee Hastings

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? — Tom Hayden

Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women. — Mark Dayton

I catch fire and find the reserves of courage and assertiveness to speak up. When that happens I get quite carried away. My blood gets hot my brow wet I become unbearably and unconscionably sarcastic and bellicose I am girded for a total showdown. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying. — Charles II of England

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support. — E. B. White

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. — Pat Conroy

It is totally unconscionable to subject defenseless animals to mutilation and death, just so a company can be the first to market a new shade of nail polish or a new, improved laundry detergent. It's cruel, it's brutal, it's inhumane, and most people don't want it. — Abigail Van Buren

The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge. — Jill Stein

Indefensible Quotes

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and sheer cloudy vagueness... Political language [is] designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. — George Orwell

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. — Rebecca West

It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out. — Nicola Sturgeon

Early Russia, centered around Moscow in the 13th century, was indefensible. There were no mountains, no deserts, and few rivers. — Tim Marshall

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. — George Orwell

Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse. — Janet Malcolm

I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it. — Matt Groening

To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up. — Dalai Lama

American Jews are overwhelmingly liberal. By "liberal," I mean, basically, support for the rule of law, support for human rights, support for peace; and on all those counts - rule of law, human rights, peace - Israel's record has become indefensible. — Norman Finkelstein

Excusable Quotes

If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse. — Jim Rohn

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. — George Washington Carver

When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful. — DJ Khaled

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy. — Thurgood Marshall

I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else. — Benjamin Franklin

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were. — Nina Simone

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses. — William Arthur Ward

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses. — Al-Ghazali

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom. — Fela Kuti

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More Inexcusable Quotes

We are all meant to be naturalists, each in his own degree, and it is inexcusable to live in a world so full of the marvels of plant and animal life and to care for none of these things. — Charlotte Mason

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. — Henrik Ibsen

One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable. — Mahatma Gandhi

To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis

A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery. — Vladimir Lenin

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines. — Storm Jameson

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind. — Derrick Jensen

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity. — Evelyn Waugh

But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple. — Neil Postman

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked. — Bill Walsh

He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances. — Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal. — Richard K. Morgan

The universe is almost 14 billion years old, and, wow! Life had no problem starting here on Earth! I think it would be inexcusably egocentric of us to suggest that we're alone in the universe. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods. — Raimond Gaita

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible. — John Ensign

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don't like about ourselves; they are self-defeating behaviors we don't know how to change. InExcuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as "I'm too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it's going to take too long or be too difficult." — Wayne Dyer

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true. — Lance Armstrong

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice. — Allan Kardec

It's hard to imagine that there are people in the country that have types of hateful, inexcusable, racist, white supremacist views. — Sean Hannity

Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates consequences in the world that to me are simply inexcusable. — Sam Hamill

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it. — Sara Paretsky

In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual. — Jimmy Carter

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns. — Joshua Ferris

It is inexcusable for the White House and Congress to not even make the effort to find at least some offsets to this new spending, ... No one in America believes the federal government is operating at peak efficiency and can't tighten its belt. — Tom Coburn

If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between. — Jim Lehrer

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering. — Kofi Annan

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin-one the Savior warned against. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The fact that the author thinks slowly is not serious, but the fact that he publishes faster than he thinks is inexcusable. — Wolfgang Pauli

Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the Truth to sell it more effectively was inexcusable. For Bonhoeffer the challenge was to present the Truth as purely as possible without attempting to help it along or dress it up. — Eric Metaxas

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. — James Madison

The issue here is not gun control. And it's not even astronomical cost overruns, although those are serious. What's really inexcusable is that Parliament was in the dark. — Sheila Fraser

Why? I mean, why you? I can perfectly comprehend not liking my husband. I dislike him intensely most of the time.” Professor Lyall stifled a chuckle. “I am given to understand that he does not approve of spelling one’ s name with two ll’s. He finds it inexcusably Welsh. I suspect he may be quite taken with you, however. — Gail Carriger

To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant — inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. — Daniel Dennett

To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable. — Patrick Rothfuss

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