Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.” — Moby Copy Share Image
Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now. — Paul F. M. Zahl Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the source from which all significations and all values spring. It is the original condition of all justification of existence.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language. — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that… — Anna Kendrick Copy Share Image
What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
“Justification Justification means that God not only has forgiven me of my sins but also has granted me the righteousness of Christ.… — Robert S. McGee Copy Share Image
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks,… — Don Young Copy Share Image
If a preacher is cultured, gentle, earnest, intellectual, and broadly tolerant, the sheep of God run after him. He, of course, speaks… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with… — C. F. W. Walther Copy Share Image
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“why wouldn’t I eat a dog I’d never met? Or more to the point, what justification might I have for sparing dogs… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No matter what justification you have for your feelings, you cannot wish harmful things on others.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
