It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The first thing to note is that pornography and many abductions occur apart from the use of computers, and that most child… — Seymour Papert 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
It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that… — Don Kates Copy Share Image
You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy. — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Because I know that the early Greeks and Romans and the early Europeans at that age did not see racism as we… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We all know people who say: "It's the principle of the matter" to justify sustaining toxic emotions for years. As they hold… — Doc Childre Copy Share Image
We know that Muhammad waged war against the Qurayshi tribe, his own tribe, and it's from that conflict that much of the… — Rukmini Maria Callimachi Copy Share Image
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular… — John Twelve Hawks Copy Share Image