When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. — Alan Dershowitz 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
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
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
“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
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
What's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification.… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Without just cause of reason, without legal or moral justification, and without a thread of proof that Iraq directly threatens the security… — Zack de la Rocha Copy Share Image
An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has… — Andrew Forrest Copy Share Image
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“Is it true that human beings are nothing but the products of their social environment? And if it is not true, what… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Solid scriptural theology should be valued in the church. Books in which Scripture is reverently regarded as the only rule of faith… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander 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
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
Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. — Niccolo Machiavelli 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
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
“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
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
“Because we find something distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem it criminal.” — Moby 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
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
It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. — Umberto Eco 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
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
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
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
