Unforgivable Quotes

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hitting, Crime, Avoided

  1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

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• What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.

  Peter Drucker

  Top Management, People, Benefits

  "The Relentless Contrarian". Interview with Peter Schwartz, Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.

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• Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

  John D. MacDonald

  Friendship, Avoiding, Dependent

  "The Last One Left". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1967.

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• The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Beautiful, Real, Men

  "Shards of Honor". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

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• Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Unforgivable Sin, Splendor, Sin

  "Universal History of Infamy". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1935.

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• Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Men, Practice

  Graham Greene (1973). “The Portable Graham Greene”

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• She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in love with someone else, or I did something wrong, or I let her down in some unforgivable way...That, I'd understand, right? But instead, she said...it wasn't anything. Not a single thing. It was just me. I was nice. I was kind. We just...she didn't see the connection anymore. I think she thought I was boring. And the cruelest part is, when someone says something mean about you, you know when they're right.

  Brad Meltzer

  Broken Heart, Nice, Mean

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• The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

  Tennessee Williams

  Unforgivable Sin, Cruelty, Deliberate

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• The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

  George Santayana

  Forgiveness, Unforgivable Sin, Refusal

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• When you love the unlovable and forgive the unforgivable, you’re free.

  Bernie Siegel

  Forgiving, Unlovable

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• Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

  Carl Jung

  Goes On, Able, Sometimes

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• There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Yellow Sun

  FaceBook post by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from Dec 04, 2011

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• Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day
  hoping that the other person will die.

  Debbie Ford

  Forgiveness, Poison, Resentment

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• Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

  Emily Giffin

  If You Truly Love Someone, Love Someone, Ifs

  Emily Giffin (2012). “Where We Belong: A Novel”, p.160, Macmillan

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• But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

  Sue Augustine

  Self, Roots, Starting Over

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.81, Harvest House Publishers

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• That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

  Gene Wolfe

  Unforgivable Sin, Remains, Capable

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.221, Macmillan

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• I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their jobs....I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices in doing something terrible and unforgivable to our wonderful country. Deep down in our heart, we know that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected.

  John C. Danforth

  Country, Money, Jobs

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• It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds.

  Christian Dior

  Succeed, Ifs

  "Costume Jewellery" by Judith Miller, p. 36, 2008.

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• If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that the way it happens is "not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit" (Zechariah 4:6). This means that certain things will not be accomplished by human strength, but only by the power of God. The Holy Spirit will enable us to forgive even the unforgivable.

  Stormie Omartian

  Mean, Forgiving, Might

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• It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.

  Martin Zweig

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• I do forgive people when they get it right, even people who in the past I thought were unforgivable.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Past, People, Forgiving

  Source: runningmagazine.ca

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• I believe that any attempt on the part of a libertarian communist society to abridge the rights of a community - for example, to operate on the basis of a market economy of the kind that you describe - would be unforgivable, and I would oppose the practices of such a society as militantly as I think any reader of your publication would.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  Source: reason.com

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• The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to something that without interference could go on endlessly. It is therefore quite significant, a structural element in the realm of human affairs, that men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and that they are unable to punish what has turned out to be unforgivable.

  Hannah

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• Anarchy wears two faces, both Creator and Destroyer. Thus Destroyers topple empires; make a canvas of clean rubble where creators can then build a better world. Rubble, once achieved makes further ruins' means irrelevant. Away with our explosives, then! Away with our Destroyers! They have no place within our better world. But let us raise a toast to all our bombers, all our bastards, most unlovely and most unforgivable, let's drink their health, then meet with them no more.

  Alan Moore

  Mean, Two, Bombers

  "V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, September 1988 – May 1989.

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• cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

  Rae Foley

  Sin, Strikes, Cruelty

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