It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your… — Molly Haskell Copy Share Image
People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age… — Bill Mumy Copy Share Image
“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such… — Aaron Allston Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder Copy Share Image
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced… — Peter Singer 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
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have… — Cheryl Strayed 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
If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. — Skeet Ulrich Copy Share Image