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
“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
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. — William J. Seymour Copy Share Image
Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees… — Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. — Guillaume Apollinaire 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
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
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
“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
Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI 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
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
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
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of justification by faith—a Biblical truth, and a blessed relief from sterile legalism and unavailing self-effort—has in our time fallen… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth… and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
“Sometimes man has a tendency to look at someone else’s situation in order to find some type of justification or validation with… — E.N. Joy Copy Share Image
“It always starts with one. That's how justification works. But once you justify something once, you can do it again. It becomes… — Batman, Injustice Copy Share Image
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to… — Billy Magnussen Copy Share Image
She obeys me, but only because she wants to. It's the only justification for obedience, Ged observed. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate. — Janet Burroway Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
