I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
The desire to look strong and decisive, instead of looking human, is the fatal flaw of so many politicians, and I will never understand why the favoured path of the political class is akin to a child with chocolate smeared on their face insisting that they didn't eat the edible Christmas tree ornaments while their parents slept.
I worked as a prosecutor watching Catholic priests charged with sex abuse and saw firsthand how the 'circle the wagons' mentality revictimized the innocent, coddled the guilty, and made matters worse for everyone.
Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.
Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
There's a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it.
Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in the Ryan and Murphy Reports.
More excuses for more failures.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.
A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures.
In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.
If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair share.
There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.
People will throw stones and hide their hands and then get back and play victim.
When I said that I was king of forwards, you've got to understand that I don't come up with this stuff. I just forward it along. You wouldn't arrest a guy who was just passing drugs from one guy to another.
One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.
With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!
The history of the opium fight forms a queer illustration of our National blindness to our own faults, and emphasizes our National tendency to see with amazing clarity, the sins of others, while remaining blind to our own viciousness
I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.
