Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon? — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's… — John McCain Copy Share Image
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's… — Henrik Svensmark 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
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
“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
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
“The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel… — Chris Hayes 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
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
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The ongoing function of God’s law is not to serve as a standard to be met for justification but as a guide… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Copy Share Image
“The justification of capitalism is not that the economy grows faster than it grows under any other system ... not that the… — M. Northrup Buechner Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey 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
Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you… — Jan Frazier Copy Share Image
“You understand nothing," I told him with a weary shake of the head, but I would not try to make him understand.… — Krisi Keley Copy Share Image
I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town ... a German soldier shot her dead in… — Gerald Kaufman 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
“When the moral and ethical failure of others becomes your defense, that will be your conviction.” — Wyatt Pringle Jr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I waited enough for someone, to accept them with all their broken promises and obvious lies…… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
“The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its… — Alfred Denning, Baron Denning Copy Share Image
“Justification is the new creation of the new man, and sanctification his preservation until the day of Jesus Christ.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura 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
There is no need of justifying yourself to others, until you can justify yourself to your own conscience. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id… — Kenneth C. Griffin Copy Share Image
“Well, and it is not my fault if I have not loved as one loves a concubine, since men do not.” — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
