“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.” IndividualQualityExcuseShallowGood QualityBad CompanyNegative Influence Author:Michael Bassey
“From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this kind of thinking is also made impossible by the very essence of ethics, by conscience and the sense of responsibility.” ThinkingWorldKindDoeMadeCertainIndividualViewsResponsibilityKnownFateImpossibleDependsEthicsConscienceEssenceExcusePoint Of ViewEthicalSense Of Responsibility Author:Gyorgy Lukacs
“I am accountable for all the actions at my laboratory. I am accountable for all of the policies and procedures of security systems, and I am accountable for the training of the individuals working in the lab. We can't excuse them if they ignore these policies, if they are negligent, we have to hold them accountable as well.” IfsWellsActionIndividualSecurityPolicyTrainingExcuseProceduresLaboratoryLabsSecurity SystemsPolicies And Procedures Author:John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
“Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is no test for progress other than its impact on the individual.” SufferingIndividualNumbersPrinciplesProgressTestsImpactExcuseIndifferenceEnlightened Book:In Place of Fear Source: In Place of Fear
“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.” ChildrenMadeUsedIndividualSexInterestAnimalMissingExampleEvolutionBenefitsSafetyTablesSpeciesExcuseMannersCheatingPairsUsualGardeningStableBehaviourIncapableMonkeysSustainingDarwinismTable MannersShrewsPhilanderer Author:A. A. Gill
“Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.” HumansPersonsMadeIndividualSimpleAnswersRaceSituationCryIndiaSouthRaisedComplexesExcuseThese DaysHuman RaceComplexityStride Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.” MenMeanIndividualCommunityAnswersDutyExcuse Book:Modes and Morals Source: Modes and Morals