George Tenet

Here's the teaching point, if you're teaching kids about intelligence and policy: Intelligence does not absolve policymakers of responsibility to ask tough questions, and it doesn't absolve them of having curiosity about the consequences of their actions.

American Public Servant

Suze Orman

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts. The first, and most difficult, step is to absolve yourself and your spouse or partner of any guilt.

American Author

Keith Olbermann

The corporation is one of the great unheralded human inventions of destruction. It is a way to absolve from any personal liability a bunch of people. They form together in a massive ID and they do whatever they want.

American Journalist

James Buchan

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

British Novelist

John McCarthy

Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance.

American Politician

Charlotte Bronte

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Robert Browning

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.

English Poet

Louise Linton

I don't really believe in torpedoing someone's career when they've been absolved of doing something.

Scottish Actress

Albert Bandura

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

Canadian Psychologist

Fidel Castro

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

Statesman

Used when a person or group is officially released from legal liability or charges.

Legal Context

Often used in active voice, indicating the authority doing the absolving.

Active Voice

Absolution requires a decision or action; one isn't absolved without an external judgement.

Not Automatic

Used to suggest someone is morally free of wrongdoing, not just legally.

Moral Implication

Can imply a sense of relief for the person being absolved.

Emotional Relief

Often part of a ritual, like confession in Christianity, where one admits wrongdoing.

Religious Ritual

In religious contexts, absolution is usually given by a figure of divine authority.

Divine Authority

Religious absolution typically requires sincere repentance and admission of fault.

Sincere Repentance

 There's no room in the afternoons, because everything has to be enriching, we think. It's as if every piece of homework, every quiz, every activity is a make-or-break moment for this future we have in mind for them, and we absolve them of helping out around the house, and we even absolve them of getting enough sleep

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 But to his surprise, his companions absolved him of blame and celebrated his valor. Struggling to understand this strange journey, it seemed to Gawain that perhaps the whole world was playing a game— with rules more wild and bewildering than any man could understand.

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 or can take for granted. And when we think of people like this, we should only think of them as exceptional, but not as exceptions. Thinking of them as exceptions absolves us of the collective responsibility to help students in similar situations.

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 without losing the title of good woman. We know that the variables in a woman's environment are much more likely to cause her to be angry than her hormones, but when she attributes anger to hormones, she's absolved of responsibility or criticism.

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 in the quantity and quality needed to keep this innovation engine going, so companies are finding innovative ways to overcome this, but in the end it does not absolve the government of the responsibility for creating this educational structure.

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 I wasn't. She offered me sort of conditional forgiveness. What she wrote was "Messages such as yours cannot absolve you of your past actions. The only way to do that is to improve the world, prevent others from behaving in similar ways

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 I was baffled. Abed had said something remarkable. Did it point up the degree to which he'd absolved himself of the crash? Was it evidence of guilt, an assertion that he should have been put away longer?

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 We cannot absolve ourselves of the responsibilities and accountabilities of our actions if our actions actually cause harm to those that we purport to protect and serve.

Absolve