Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes.… — Dalai Lama 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
For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate… — Walter M. Miller, Jr Copy Share Image
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing.… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system… — Beth Simone Noveck 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
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We acknowledge no righteousness but what the obedience and satisfaction of Christ yields us. His blood, not our faith; his satisfaction, not… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is… — Levy Mwanawasa Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Whether this was explicitly taught or implicitly caught, I grew up with the impression that when it comes to the Christian life,… — Tullian Tchividjian 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
“True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
Nobody needs to justify why they "need" a right: the burden of justification falls on the one seeking to infringe upon the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand.… — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
