A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“A major reason, I believe, is this: It does not sit comfortably with a person to affirm, and try to live, the… — Esther Lightcap Meek Copy Share Image
I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
“A justified person dies and rises in Christ, and so is delivered from sin, death and domination of flesh. Justification is, to… — Peter Leithart Copy Share Image
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music… — Elvis Costello 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
The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout… — Neil T Anderson Copy Share Image
It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had… — Marilyn Yalom Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“The sacramental system of the Reformers flowed quite logically from their false idea of justification. If justification really consisted in a merely… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it… — Roseanne Barr 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
The steamship whose machinery is broken may be brought into port and made fast to the dock. She is safe, but not… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The gross debaucheries and atrocious cruelties are covered with a resplendent mental veil because of the systematic exposition of the philosophic principles… — Iwan Bloch Copy Share Image
We must not think that faith itself is the soul's rest; it is only the means of it. We cannot find rest… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for… — Tripp York Copy Share Image
Justification, in terms of the broadening of freedom, for any particular form of institution of property must be argued in terms of… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I found 'The Twin' sitting on a coffee table at a writers' colony in 2009. It carried praise from J.M. Coetzee. That… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The history of prevailing status quos shows decay and decadence infecting the opulent materialism of the Haves. The spiritual life of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means… — Pearl Abraham Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as articulus stantis vel cadentis ecclesiae—the article of faith that decides whether the… — James Robert White Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
