Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic.
Anish Kapoor

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
Jane Alexander

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson

So I wrote what I hoped would be science fiction, I was not at all sure if what I wrote would be acceptable even. But I don't say that I consciously wrote with humour. Humour is a part of you that comes out.
Robert Sheckley

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.
Judith Wright

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.
Richard Carlson

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Carroll Quigley

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
Elfriede Jelinek

The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
Laurence Housman

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.
Bill Haley

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.
Jeff Cooper

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.
Alex North

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
Katherine Whitehorn

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.
Benoit Mandelbrot

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette