It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion. — Umberto Eco 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
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense… — Frederick C. Beiser 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
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann 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
The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they… — Margaret Halsey 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
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
“Unless a man is already a believer and a Christian, his works have no value at all. They are foolish, idle, damnable… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting… — George Washington 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There can be no justification to admit, in any way, the use of armed forced to intervene in the internal affairs of… — Nicolae Ceausescu 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
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
“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
Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence. — Alan Dershowitz 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
“No matter what justification you have for your feelings, you cannot wish harmful things on others.” — Gloria D. Gonsalves 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
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
“why wouldn’t I eat a dog I’d never met? Or more to the point, what justification might I have for sparing dogs… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime. — Ayn Rand 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
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it… — Paulo Coelho 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
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“One need only admit that public tranquillity is in danger and any action finds a justification. All” — Leo Tolstoy 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