I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“All numbers in logic must be capable of justification. Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others’ needs more highly than their… — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
“We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before… — Robin Bertram Copy Share Image
As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing… — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who… — Benjamin Crump Copy Share Image
Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification… — John L. Lewis Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the… — M. Northrup Buechner Copy Share Image
“Many have found it hard to see what claim the law can have on the Christian. We are free from the law,… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
Lies are a little fortress; inside them you can feel safe and powerful. Through your little fortress of lies you try to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of… — Nicolae Ceausescu Copy Share Image
With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than… — Mike Rinder Copy Share Image
“Justification is a legal declaration that the sinner is acquitted from the guilt of sin, and is considered righteous before God.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious. — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code. — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way is not cause or justification to discriminate. — Chuck Robb Copy Share Image