#pardon

The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity. ↗

— Kate Millett

#affords #circumstance #concept #emotional #exploit

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

— Barbara Olson

#constantly #house #kind #pardon #phones

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#like #must #obscure #pardoned #talent

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

#homosexual #how #i #i remember #interesting

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

— John Dryden

#does #done #forgiveness #injured #pardon

Where there is injury let me sow pardon. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

#me #pardon #sow #where

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#hair #long #long hair #offence #should

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#defend #men #might #nothing #pardonable

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

— Joseph Roux

#committed #folly #least #might #ourselves

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. ↗

— Morley Safer

#marc #pardoning #rich