Condone Quotes

#1. I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.

Russell Simmons

#2. Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.

Bernard Membe

#3. There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

Moby

#4. Clergymen almost necessarily fail in two ways as teachers of morals. They condemn acts which do no harm and they condone acts which do great harm.

Bertrand Russell

#5. John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.

Richard Flanagan

#6. Ronan's expression was still incendiary. His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn't that he didn't condone them; he couldn't understand

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Jim Beaver

#9. His code of honor left no room for infidelity, for casual relationships. It wasn't that he didn't condone them; he couldn't understand them.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Joyce Meyer

#11. Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.

Billy Graham

#12. If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

Rick Warren

#13. I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others,

Tracy Morgan

#14. Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.

Nathan Deal

#15. Please stay safe inside, and should you see yourself, I cannot condone murdering yourself. I just do not believe violence is ever the answer. (It is a question. The real answer is far more terrifying.)

Jeffrey Cranor

#16. No matter how cultured or ancient the civilization, no average American is going to condone the absence of flush toilets. Not now, not ever.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#17. We condone the most bitter and vindictive intolerance from a desire to appear tolerant, and run to prove that badness is not as bad as it seems, by pointing out that goodness is not so good as it looks.

J. E. Buckrose

#18. Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

Joe Moore

#19. We don't condone it, but it happened. Is there a concern Yes, there is a concern. People are going to think what they think. But the reality is, I know the players we have, I know the character we have. We're recruiting the right people.

Larry Coker

#20. The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

Eudora Welty

#21. No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

Charles Lindbergh

#22. When the third person effect leads you to condone censorship, take a step back and imagine the sort of messages people on the other side might think are brainwashing you, and then ask yourself if those messages should be censored too.

David McRaney

#23. To forgive does not mean to condone.

Allan Lokos

#24. We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

Theodore Roosevelt

#25. Forgiveness does not mean I approve of or condone what transpired.

Sharon E. Rainey

#26. When we are happy to turn from evil because it is ugly, and causes us distress, then we condone it and become party to its continuance. Little by little, we become as guilty of it as those who commit the act - because we have told them by our silence that it is acceptable.

Anne Perry

#27. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It's something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve.

Lena Dunham

#28. I never condone wrongdoing in any area

Bertie Ahern

#29. We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

Ben Nelson

#30. To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

Jon Evans

#31. I don't condone anyone causing damage in my name, or doing anything malicious in support of my plight. There are more productive ways to help me. As a hacker myself, I never intentionally damaged anything.

Kevin Mitnick

#32. [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.

Ouida

#33. Man, if you're gay we can be friends. If you're straight, we can be friends. I'm not gay, I don't plan on being gay, I don't condone it and I'm not sayin' I'm against it.

ASAP Rocky

#34. This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.

Leonard Peltier

#35. Now it is one thing to say I say it that people shouldn't consume psychoactive drugs. It is entirely something else to condone marijuana laws, the application of which resulted, in 1995, in the arrest of 588,963 Americans. Why are we so afraid to inform ourselves on the question?

William F. Buckley Jr.

#36. The church also does not condone a broken immigration system in the U.S., one that too easily can lead to the exploitation, abuse and even death of immigrants.

Roger Mahony

#37. My uncertainty disappeared. Segregation is evil, and I cannot, as a minister, condone evil.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#38. Literature offers feelings for which we don't have to pay. It allows us to love, condemn, condone, hope, dread, and hate without any of the risks those feelings ordinarily involve.

Jonathan Gottschall

#39. My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

Henry Rollins

#40. I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts. I do not believe that the Armed Forces of the United States are well served by a saying through our policies that it's OK to be immoral in any way.

Peter Pace

#41. Coldiron is concerned about the townspeople not being priced out of chili dogs, but willing to condone dosing religious protesters, however repellant, with something that turns them into homicidal erotomaniacs?

William Gibson

#42. While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of Achilles.

Tim O'Reilly

#43. To say a thing is natural is to condone it, never to praise it.

Quentin Crisp

#44. Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

Paul Watson

#45. Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#46. I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

Leven Rambin

#47. Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.

Ken Follett

#48. This was not chivalrously done," said Brienne when they were close enough to see it clearly. "No true knight would condone such wanton butchery.

George R R Martin

#49. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.

Virginia McKenna

#50. I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars ... I'm not bitter at all ...

Bill Bailey

#51. There is one thing which we should have exceedingly clear in our minds. Neither the President of the Church, nor the First Presidency, nor the united voice of the First Presidency and the Twelve will ever condone the use of ReddiWhip on pie.

Joseph Fielding Smith

#52. To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

Louis Leakey

#53. This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

John Yoo

#54. Our nation grew strong in an era when moral standards were emphasized, and it will grow weak when we condone that which we once condemned.

Billy Graham

#55. While we condone the deaths and suffering of our own, we never give a second thought to the death and suffering caused by our people.

Raj

#56. A politician is required to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug. The most we can hope for is that we don't actually believe it.

P.D. James

#57. It's true that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:1), but this does not mean God will condone all our thoughts and behaviors. Though in Christ he overlooks our sins in a judicial sense, he is not blind to them.

Kevin DeYoung

#58. I never, ever cheated [in medical school]. I don't condone cheating. But I would sometimes spread misinformation. This is a great tactic. Misinformation can be very important.

Rand Paul

#59. Noah presses upon my back to bend me double in preparation for the order. He tosses aside my clogs in order to bind left thumb to right toe, then right thumb to left toe in the form of the holy cross. It has always seemed to me a forgiving God would not condone such abuse of the crucifix.

Janet Graber

#60. For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

John Howard Griffin

#61. As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

Anthony Crosland

#62. In a young child's mind, parents probably condone what's on the television, just like they choose what's in the refrigerator or on the stove. That's why we who make television for children must be especially careful.

Fred Rogers

#63. Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.

Paloma Faith

#64. Stubborness we deprecate,
Firmness we condone,
The former is our neighbors trait,
The latter is our own.

John Wooden

#65. None of us condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form, and I believe Hezbollah is a terrorist organization that was, is, and remains a threat to peace in the Mideast, and must be dismantled and disarmed.

John Conyers