Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of… — Steve Martin 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
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
It is like using a smoke screen, the same thing for an individual. The topic here is Islam. If French politicians are… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those… — Dawna Markova 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 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
I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging… — Ned Kelly Copy Share Image
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions,… — Pope John Paul II 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
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide… — Hari Kondabolu 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
