Pardon
The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense; release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution.
An official warrant of remission of penalty.
The state of being forgiven.
A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses.
To absolve from the consequences of a fault or the punishment of crime; to free from penalty; -- applied to the offender.
To remit the penalty of; to suffer to pass without punishment; to forgive; -- applied to offenses.
To refrain from exacting as a penalty.
To give leave (of departure) to.
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Pardon Quotations
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.
Voltaire
And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?
Milton Friedman
Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
Francis of Assisi
We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.
Thomas Kempis
George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression.
Martin Sheen
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden
Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.
John Goodman
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Douglas Horton
We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.
William Gurnall
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Barbara Olson
I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States. I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.
Alberto Fujimori
I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them, and he rendered his judgment, wise or unwise, on the merits.
John Podesta
If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
Joseph Roux
You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.
Alan Lomax
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
Barbara Olson
We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.
Cindy Sheehan
I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.
Augusto Pinochet
If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.
William Allingham
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Pardon Translations
pardon in Afrikaans is vergeef, vergifnis
pardon in Dutch is vergeven, begenadigen
pardon in Finnish is antaa anteeksi
pardon in French is pardonner, pardon
pardon in German is Verzeihung
pardon in Italian is venia
pardon in Latin is omitto, venia
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