All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification. — Bruce Jackson Copy Share Image
“I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds… — Greg Saunier Copy Share Image
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The joys of being single: Do what you want, when you want, with whom you want, for whatever reason you want and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Justification should've no place in your life. people who ask for it don't belive you and will never do and people who… — Aliva Copy Share Image
If the criticism is unjustified, then we are rewarded for our patience and good behavior in not retaliating. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Money is behind every war,” Au-nak continued. “Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.” “There’s a difference?” the ardent said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth… and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“In justification, God imputes or counts over to the sinner the righteousness of Christ. In sanctification, God imparts the righteousness of the… — G.H. Gerberding Copy Share Image
Men, your primary responsibility in your home, after your wife, is you to disciple your own children. And if you don't do… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
However good we are, however correctly we seek to lead our lives, tragedies do occur. We can blame others, look for justification,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bible assuredly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's… — Henrik Svensmark Copy Share Image
I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon? — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
There's no justification to not be paid the same as the men. We do everything the men do. — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes holding on to something that you still believe in is reason enough to justify the pain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men… — Hilary of Poitiers Copy Share Image
It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith. — Adolph Saphir Copy Share Image