Halfhearted or insincere apologies are often worse than not apologizing at all because recipients find them insulting. If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic; a bad apology is like rubbing salt I the wound.

What is more obscene: the idea that one can apologize for the hubris and deceit that is Obama and his health care, or the actual need some have for an apology from an entity so evil that he would toy with the lives of millions as though they were insects and he God? This is hard to tell.

Of course, apologies are rarely acceptable to true believers - or to anyone who believes in *pure* good, or in pure evil.

... the whole thing is disgraceful from beginning to end. Disgraceful and vulgar.

If you've done something wrong in your dealings with another person, it's as if there's an infection in your relationship. A good apology is like an antibiotic ; a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

A nice man would feel ashamed even before a dog.

For all Men would be Cowards if they durst: And Honesty's against all common Sense.

An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie

I apologize.” “you aren’t sorry and don’t apologize.”

CHOR. It is not right to speak well, where the deeds are not glorious; for this is not honorable, but galling to justice.

It is offensive that there should be seen in the outward appearance of man more humility than what is in his heart.

A Man Without Honor
is Worse than Dead.