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«Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
acceptable, destructive, disengagement, justification, personally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, socially, The Service
«No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals»
Author: Irving Kristol
| About:
Nations
| Keywords:
acceptable, constructed, foreign, foreign policy, intellectuals, No Policy, policy
«News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself»
«If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?»
Author: Sally Struthers
| About:
God,
Women
| Keywords:
acceptable, breast, breasted, chopping, chop off, Forbade, forbid, forbidding, kissing, pictured, rating, ratings, tenderness, violence
«In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
acceptable, be active, females, scarier, seventies, sports
«Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? / Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? / Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? / Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.»
Author: Bible
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acceptable, afflict, bow down, break bread, break loose, bulrush, bulrushes, cast out, let loose, light bread, morning glory, oppressed, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, speedily
«NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, accessible, competitor, descending, honors, Jacob, ladder, notoriety, renown, vaudeville
«Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Hypocrisy,
Politeness
| Keywords:
acceptable, hypocrisy, politeness
«Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
acceptable, oratory, unbelievable
«Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
acceptable, elsewhere, longing, offices, rottenness