All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
“...it is in hearing the voice of the devil that we can better appreciate the voice of god.” — dan brown Copy Share Image
[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
“The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.” — Jenn Thoman Copy Share Image
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
“Money is behind every war,” Au-nak continued. “Religion is but an excuse. Or perhaps a justification.” “There’s a difference?” the ardent said,… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Myself and Yorgos Lanthimos, we spoke a little bit and I was at a certain body weight that I was closer to… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of justification by faith—a Biblical truth, and a blessed relief from sterile legalism and unavailing self-effort—has in our time fallen… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I'm against the theory of the multinational corporations who say if you are against hunger you must be for GMO. That's wrong,… — Jean Ziegler Copy Share Image
I mean, part of the justification for art is art history, the fact that you're part of this tradition. You can't really… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Before there could be any permanent reformation the people must be led to feel their utter inability in themselves to render obedience… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley Copy Share Image
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. — Laurence Tribe Copy Share Image
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. — Dario Fo Copy Share Image
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often… — Richard Wall Copy Share Image
JUSTIFICATION FOR IMMATURE ACTIONS...ONLY SHOWS YOUR LEVEL OF GROWTH. PAIN AND LONELINESS IS NOT AN EXCUSE (SHORT LIES) THINK! AM 2013 — Anne' McMillion Copy Share Image