Acceptability Quotes

You know, when you're 23 and you get pissed, I mean drunk, you can just go crazy and it's all right. But if you're 43 and you do it, it's like your best friend's mother who used to come in pissed and everybody was really embarrassed. It just doesn't go down well, you know, after a certain age.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

[…] the opposite of not wrong isn’t necessarily right.

Enormous slaughter may have been acceptable in previous centuries. It simply isn't acceptable anymore.

In my heart of hearts, I don't think it's a good position to say that Guantanamo is not an acceptable answer for anyone we might capture now or in the future.

Either we agree that any terrorism is unacceptable, or we will be playing a double-standard game where some son of a bitch is okay because he is our son of a bitch.

I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

We don't have to be brilliant.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

There's nothing wrong with white if it's all right.

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

We have to have a business model that can be a sustainable and acceptable one to both regulators and the other stakeholders, clients, and investors.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was 'not done' to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.

It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.

While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.

There is a world of difference between not disclosing fine detail and relying on broad and generalised assertions. The first may be understandable; the second is not acceptable.

Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.

If it's dirty, it's not funny, but if it's funny, it's not dirty.

Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.

People who would never think of dealing in racial or sexual stereotypes will still throw in a fat joke because it's still OK. Really?

Eventually, though, I came to the conclusion that I was the male equivalent of a Toyota Camry. You know: No one ever says, "I have to have a Toyota Camry." But most people who spend some time in a Camry start to like it. "It's pretty reliable," they think. "It doesn't have a lot of problems, and it's not bad to look at. You know what? I'd probably prefer a nicer car. But I can live with a Camry.

… whether torture works, a major preoccupation of the Senate report, is the wrong question. The World’s governments did not negotiate a treaty banning it [torture] under all circumstances because it’s ineffective. They did so because it is immoral, inhumane, and unacceptable—even if it works.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.