No Excuse For Abuse Quotes

#1. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.

Vironika Tugaleva

#2. You're all like black boxes here," he said. He meant the black boxes that record information on airplanes. We think that we're living, talking, walking, eating. Loving one another. But we're just recording information!

Svetlana Alexievich

#3. Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

Lemony Snicket

#4. Tough love is nothing but an excuse and another form of abuse ... from the hands that can.

Timothy Pina

#5. I have a lot of love to give, and when I give that love and others are able to receive it and show me their vulnerability, I believe that God inhabits that space, which means I basically hang out with God a lot, and that's why I feel hopeful.

Ashley Judd

#6. A spider is hardly an excuse to abuse a book.

Rebecca Chastain

#7. There is no excuse for human rights abuse, whether in the name of security or in the name of liberation.

Irene Khan

#8. Thinking ... is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas

Rudolf Steiner

#9. It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

John Schneider

#10. Just promise me, Mitch, whenever you decide to make the decision, you make it for you. And if you can't make the decision yourself, then you call me. Any time. Any place. I'll be there. No matter what. And we'll make it together. You think you can handle that?

River Savage

#11. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.

Lundy Bancroft

#12. Fear doesn't excuse a hundred years of oppression and abuse.

Jodi Meadows

#13. The world is full of double beds And most delightful maidenheads, Which being so, there's no excuse For sodomy or self-abuse.

Hilaire Belloc

#14. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.

Courtney Summers

#15. If CASA?s board, which includes such scientific experts as actress Jamie Lee Curtis, wants to tell the world that drinking is bad for you, that?s their prerogative? But there?s no excuse for political activism masquerading as science.

Bill Vaughan

#16. It's been very interesting. We've seen a lot of interesting testimony. We've seen a lot of interesting people, a lot of allegations, a lot of lies, a lot of misinformation and some truth.

Kenneth Lay

#17. Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Wilhelm Wundt

#18. There is no excuse for waste, fraud, and abuse in the Defense Department budget.

John Bolton

#19. Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big eyes, tiny nose, we go 'aaah'. That's what evolution does. We are programmed to do that. So to find babies the most amazing, isn't surprising, I don't think.

David Attenborough

#20. The choice to worry about why we are doing something more than how we do something is risky business.

Peter Block