Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do. — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense. — John Alfred Langford Copy Share Image
I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't. — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are,… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray,… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Faith is the bond of union, the instrument of justification, the spring of spiritual peace and joy, the means of spiritual peace… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
“The article of justification must be sounded in our ears incessantly because the frailty of our flesh will not permit us to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The leap of faith is a strategic impasse that confronts every Christian in search of converts; and, as he sees the matter,… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Killing, raping and looting have been common practices in religious societies, and often carried out with clerical sanction. The catalogue of notorious… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“When God justifies a sinner everything in God is on the sinner's side.” — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification. — Richard Coles Copy Share Image