A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it,… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Advocating democracy has, by other people, often been taken as a form of imperialism, and not without some justification. So the important… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“This new war, like the previous one, would be a test of the power of machines against people and places; whatever its… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification.… — Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk Copy Share Image
“Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or… — Anne LaBastille Copy Share Image
As a party of labor, the SPD must work together with the unions to ensure that people can make a living with… — Martin Schulz 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
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
That issue has been resolved for years now, and it's been resolved for at least two years in Donald Trump's mind. And… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Faith and repentance are as much benefits of the covenant of grace as justification . . . . faith and repentance themselves… — Herman Bavinck 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
I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
No just man suffices unto himself for the winning of justification. The divine mercy must always hold out a hand to his… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've become more forgiving, even though I have no patience at all for denial, justification of wrong, rationalization. I've become virtually a… — Joshua Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“it would be perfectly proper to regard the Sacraments in the sense of Luther as a kind of acted sermons calculated to… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“But once you allow yourself to think that there are some people, because of their race, their color, or religion, who are… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be… — William Blum Copy Share Image
The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“We cry down the law in respect of justification, but we set it up as a rule of sanctification. The law sends… — Samuel Bolton Copy Share Image
Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
