“An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I just can't take anyone who tries to justify a comment using foul language. — Divya Agarwal Copy Share Image
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works. — Thomas Griffith Copy Share Image
You can try to justify how Asian you are, but you're never going to make everybody happy. — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. — Max Barry Copy Share Image
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with… — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of… — Witold Walczak Copy Share Image
Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to… — Peter Block Copy Share Image
We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their fallen leaders are on trial is not that they… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default… — Steven Novella Copy Share Image
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
Writing blog posts is totally freeing in a whole new way for me. I'm not writing it for any editor, and I'm… — Kate Christensen Copy Share Image
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is the sort of book that justifies fatwahs. If WWIII occurred right now, we could die happy knowing Baxter would never… — James Nicoll Copy Share Image
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I feel more comfortable in my own skin now than I ever have...I think there's something about loving Kai [her son] so… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not -… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In a nutshell, the ability of American companies to compete in world markets depends on creating conditions in which workers can add… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of… — Scott Berkun Copy Share Image
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image