The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Never believe in what someone tells you, until their actions justify their words. — Lucas Hunter 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
The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up. — Jesse Jackson 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
“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
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
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was only by faith in Christ that they could secure pardon of sin and receive strength to obey God's law. They… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system… — Beth Simone Noveck Copy Share Image
Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“No justification is needed for those who have attained to الحقيقة {Truth} for they are the Ones who are in the Know.… — AainaA-Ridtz A R Copy Share Image
In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from “What you’ve done angers me” to “What you’ve… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places,… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
What the Indians are saying is that they are recognizing the right of wilderness to be wilderness. Wilderness is not an extension… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“In short, an astonishingly broad spectrum of theologies of justification existed in the later medieval period, encompassing practically every option that had… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
Look what happened with regard to our invasion into Afghanistan, how we apparently intentionally let bin Laden get away. That was done… — Maurice Hinchey Copy Share Image
“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Taking a stand can be unpopular, but faith will bring you justification. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds? — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification. — Richard Coles Copy Share Image