The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the… — Immanuel Wallerstein 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
U.S. Soccer has no justification for paying us as little as they do. — Becky Sauerbrunn Copy Share Image
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another. — Marcus Eremita Copy Share Image
“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate… — Bhagat Singh 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
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see… — Mark Russell 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
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good… — Ayn Rand 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
We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no… — Edward Kennedy 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
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley 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
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
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
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
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr 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
“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
