Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color… — Joe Robert Cole Copy Share Image
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
There is no need of justifying yourself to others, until you can justify yourself to your own conscience. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
“Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its… — Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade -… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
“God never grants justification without also giving sanctification at the same time ... Sanctification in us begins as an instantaneous act of… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as… — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“To make it quite practical I have a very simple test. After I have explained the way of Christ to somebody I… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
“Justification is not how someone becomes a Christian. It is the declaration that they have become a Christian. And the total context… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Homosexual behavior is a ground for divorce, an act of sexual misconduct punishable as a crime in Alabama, a crime against nature,… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“Justification is the means whereby we appropriate the saving act of God in the past, and sanctification the promise of God's activity… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one… — Albert Einstein 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
“I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
“You have FALLEN from Grace when you seek to be Justification by your own self effort (the Law). Gal 5:4 AMP” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations. — Moliere Copy Share Image
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply… — Claude C. Hopkins Copy Share Image
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“Religion had nothing to do with why they did what they did; it was simply something they latched on to and used… — Suzanne Wright Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“When the moral and ethical failure of others becomes your defense, that will be your conviction.” — Wyatt Pringle Jr Copy Share Image
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. — William J. Seymour Copy Share Image
“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image