“When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin,… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are two sides to every story, as if that explains and justifies everything! You know what I say when someone tells… — Nikki Sex Copy Share Image
“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I… — Daniel Willey Copy Share Image
“It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from “What you’ve done angers me” to “What you’ve… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“No justification is needed for those who have attained to الحقيقة {Truth} for they are the Ones who are in the Know.… — AainaA-Ridtz A R Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Faith, as such, is merely a dispositive cause of justification,— part of its causa materialis, — whereas a Sacrament is a true… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification,… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
The left can't wait to condemn this country. The left can't wait to tell stories of how we have, I don't know,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
The atonement, or forgiveness of sin once and for all achieved on the cross, weighs in, and heavily. But the atonement is… — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
“Predestination therefore, as it regards the thing itself, is the Decree of the good pleasure of God in Christ, by which He… — James Arminius Copy Share Image
Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is… — Irena Sendler Copy Share Image
“Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
