Top 100 Unacceptable Quotes
#1. I guess there isn't a rule book for what might be unacceptable to do to another human being.
Suzanne Collins
#2. Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
FKA Twigs
#3. Being wrong is acceptable, but staying wrong is totally unacceptable.
Jack D. Schwager
#4. I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.
Wole Soyinka
#5. We don't have the capability today to put a human being in space of any kind, shape or form, which is absolutely, totally unacceptable when we got the greatest flying machine in the world sitting down at Kennedy in a garage there with nothing to do.
Eugene Cernan
#6. The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
John Major
#7. Despite the best of intentions, people create rules variously and often in reaction to behaviors deemed unacceptable to the larger goals of the group. That is why we often find ourselves revising the rules when new conditions reveal their loopholes.
Dov Seidman
#8. Those called to the service of governance in the church need to have a strong sense of justice, so that any form of injustice becomes unacceptable.
Pope Francis
#9. We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#10. When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
Michael Bennet
#11. Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.
Walter Brueggemann
#12. Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.
Eckhart Tolle
#13. It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.
Hassan Nasrallah
#14. Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.
Julius Genachowski
#15. A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
Carl Sagan
#16. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.
Steven Kassels
#17. You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.
Carly Fiorina
#18. Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.
Amber Tamblyn
#19. In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
Ferdinand De Saussure
#20. Across the room, Jason soared into the air and lopped the goddess's head off. Sadly, the head flew right back into place. "Unacceptable," Hygeia said calmly. "Decapitation is not a healthy lifestyle choice.
Rick Riordan
#21. Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.
James T. Walsh
#22. Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.
Mario Draghi
#23. If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.
Sergey Akhromeyev
#24. There is clearly a constituency that appreciates the message that Google is sending, that it finds the Chinese government's attitude to the Internet and censorship unacceptable.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#25. Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.
John C. Maxwell
#26. Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens
#27. Do not allow your sorrow or your rage to become hostility toward people on the basis of their ethnicity or their religious views. That is unacceptable; it is out of bounds, and if you break the law, we will prosecute you for it.
John Ashcroft
#28. Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.
Sara Coleridge
#29. Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.
Emily P. Freeman
#30. Judgment falls not on the unacceptable but only on those who will not accept acceptance
Robert Farrar Capon
#31. quiet courage. "It's not the courage that allows you to run into a burning building. It's the kind that allows you to accept the unacceptable, bear the unbearable, keep going.
Laura M. MacDonald
#33. Unwarranted search and seizure by the government officials was unacceptable to the American revolutionaries. Shouldn't it be unacceptable in the digital age, too?
Heather Brooke
#34. The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.
Libba Bray
#35. Unfortunately, the experience on HealthCare.gov has been highly frustrating for many Americans. These problems are unacceptable.
Todd Park
#36. Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person.
Pope John Paul II
#37. It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
Owen Hart
#38. Now, listen Tyler,' Lara said, feeling a little impatient. She rather liked a cuddle after sex, and a bit of kissing. But a guilt trip was absolutely unacceptable, even if they were lying naked on someone else's kitchen table.
Lola Salt
#39. We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
Peter Buck
#40. As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.
Iggy Pop
#41. The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable ... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
Bernadine Dohrn
#42. [D]oing nothing meant leaving things exactly the way they were, and that was unacceptable.
Caroline Goode
#43. If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices:
1-Totally accept it.
2- Change it.
3-Remove myself from the situation.
That is taking responsibility for my life.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
Carrie Fisher
#45. A situation where people can grow old without having a job that rewards them individually while adding to the collective well-being is morally unacceptable.
Franco Modigliani
#46. Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason - in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe's life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.
J.R. Ward
#47. Musicians are at the bottom of the creative pyramid and authors are at the top, and many people think it's unacceptable for someone to attempt to jump from the bottom to the top of the pyramid.
Nick Cave
#48. 180 million kids are engaged in the worst forms of child labour. Put it all together and it is not only morally unacceptable, but politically dangerous.
Juan Somavia
#49. Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it's packaged, whispers to you that you're not right. You're not good enough. You're unacceptable and you need to be fixed.
Kim Brittingham
#50. I often did unacceptable things and definitely multiple unacceptable women.
Sadie Grubor
#51. The Sharks board agree red cards and dirty play cannot be condoned, and it is unacceptable that this behaviour be associated with the Sharks brand.
Stephen Saad
#52. I was born Jewish and so I remain, even if that's unacceptable for many. For me, the vocation of Israel is bringing light to the goyim. That's my hope and I believe that Christianity is the means for achieving it.
Jean-Marie Lustiger
#53. Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#54. I have always believed that socially unacceptable men make much better lovers because they are more sensitive.
Candy Darling
#55. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#56. It would be unforgivable to use the role I have, such as it is, to inflict my incoherent, half-baked view of the world on people. That would be illegitimate and unacceptable and I should be fired.
Jeremy Paxman
#57. Without taking enforcement actions against all criminal aliens, programs such as Secure Communities may result in large numbers of identified criminal aliens being released back into the society which, of course, is an unacceptable outcome for our communities.
Candice S. Miller
#58. Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.
John Rawls
#59. If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.
Mitch Hedberg
#60. Doubt is unacceptable and should not enter you; it is merely evil trying to divert you and increase the difficulty of your task
William O'Brien
#61. These guys were the real owners of the country, and for them to discuss with this young guy who becomes a member of the government was absolutely unacceptable.
Anatoly Chubais
#62. When our purpose is to seek God and to discover His will for us, daydreaming is right and acceptable. But when our inclination is to spend time daydreaming over what we have already been told to do, it is unacceptable and God's blessing is never on it.
Oswald Chambers
#63. Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
George F. Kennan
#64. Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
John Locke
#65. A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp
#66. It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
Issa Rae
#67. It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
Magdi Yacoub
#68. Increasingly, to dismiss any popular artistic style is seen as the worst kind of snobbery. And snobbery, it goes without saying, is unacceptable in a diverse and democratic world.
Russell Smith
#69. This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#70. I have seen a lot of people, by the way, who were pro-life become pro-choice. No one seems to have any difficulty with that at all. That's easily accepted. But, if you are pro-choice and you become pro-life, there are a lot of folks, particularly in the media, who find that unacceptable.
Mitt Romney
#71. Apathy is the acceptance of the unacceptable.
John Stott
#72. I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way of being in the world, so that we can extend our compassionate intelligence and begin to work with a strengthened will and imagination that can take us into the future.
Terry Tempest Williams
#73. I've had my share, less than so many though, but enough to feel empathy. It's tough and I see it so much on Earth, too much suffering. The loss of free will I find unacceptable - what most of us refer to as rights.
Kristin Bauer Van Straten
#74. Walking around with less than ten thousand dollars is completely unacceptable. It's a necessity of life. It gives you freedom. The most important thing in life is a sense of possibility, and you simply can't have it with less than ten thousand dollars in your pocket.
Rocco Landesman
#75. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times
John Steinbeck
#76. It is unacceptable for passengers to be stranded in planes on the tarmac for hours on end.
Anthony Foxx
#77. Every fictioneer re-invents the world because the facts, things or people of the received world are unacceptable.
Geoffrey Wolff
#79. The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
Jacob Lew
#80. I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
Daisy Ridley
#81. I always said that Wahhabism is unacceptable for the Chechen nation.
Akhmad Kadyrov
#82. People need to make a stand and be clear that trading in ivory is immoral and unacceptable.
Yaya Toure
#83. Nothing would change the fault in my brian that made me unacceptable.
Graeme Simsion
#84. An innovation without explanation is unacceptable. Smartphones and cluster bombs do not belong in the 16th Century.
John Zande
#85. It is absolutely unacceptable to talk to Russia - or anyone for that matter - in the language of ultimatums and coercive measures.
Sergei Lavrov
#87. If the cost of naming the enemy is diplomatically or politically unacceptable, then the war is not likely to go well.
George Friedman
#88. All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.
Dalai Lama
#89. I was more than this meek, defenseless victim. I had something within me that was stronger than the sum of all my unacceptable parts.
Jeff Erno
#90. I think bullies are very lonely people. I always tell teenagers not to bully others because it's unacceptable. We need to teach students to value themselves and to not put others down.
Nick Vujicic
#91. It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.
Sherrod Brown
#92. An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.
John Steinbeck
#93. I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
Danny Boyle
#94. An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.
Nick Harkaway
#95. Claiming a person can't do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment. I think that should be absolutely disavowed. It's absolutely unacceptable.
Paul Ryan
#96. The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
Kathryn Harrison
#97. If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.
Abraham Lincoln
#98. My list of acceptable and unacceptable behaviors became a list of exciting possibilities.
C.D. Reiss
#100. It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.
Dick Durbin
