The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.
So what are you suggesting?" Grandfather asked. "We find a more acceptable group of people, then bring the Sacrifice to them? How do you propose we find them, a Facebook post? 'Click here to apply for eternal life'?
The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
Anyone who falls in love is a freak. Its like a socially acceptable form of insanity.
It is as acceptable now to love the wives of others as it is to smoke their cigars and read their books.
The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!
There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.
Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.
Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.
Those presents are the most acceptable which are enhanced by our regard for the donor.
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.
Occasional kindness does not cancel out cruelty. Hitting is never acceptable under any circumstances.
It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
But a little milk, butter and cheese are acceptable because no harm is done in obtaining them.
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.