The problem is when [the state] monitor all of us, en masse, all of the time, without any specific justification for intercepting… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Each of the actors need to have their justification for saying something awful. You want everyone to have a positive and negative… — M. Night Shyamalan Copy Share Image
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Faith is not the ground or basis upon which we are justified, but the means, the "instrument," by which we are united… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see… — Mark Russell Copy Share Image
I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
Many Christians in the evangelical tradition use words like "conversion," "regeneration," "justification," "born-again," etc. all as more or less synonyms to mean… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In the West nowadays, it's very common to talk about the Judeo- Christian tradition. It's a common term. The term is relatively… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 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
“So what? Why should an a priori proof of the libertarian property theory make any difference? Why not engage in aggression anyway?”… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
“Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if… — Frank Delaney Copy Share Image
Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If we may say that the Age of Andrew Jackson took political life out of the hands of aristocrats and turned it… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“To be alone with myself in the space of silence is horrifying, for I know with the utmost certainty that in that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow,… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
I talk about things in music that I would never talk about with my best friends, which I think seems like a… — Troye Sivan Copy Share Image
Justification and sanctification are both God's work, and while they can and must be distinguished, the Bible won't let us separate them.… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this… — Isaac Bashevis Singer 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
“Expressed in theological terms, “In justification our own works have no place at all, and simple faith in Christ is the one… — Michael L. Brown Copy Share Image
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. .… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works,… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Epistemologists should be concerned with knowledge and justification and so on, not our concepts of them; philosophers of mind should be concerned… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification… — John Frohnmayer Copy Share Image
Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
Either CS (coordinate system) could be used with equal justification. The two sentences: the sun is at rest and the earth moves,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“What is the proper justification of a mathematician’s life? My answers will be, for the most part, such as are expected from… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image