What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
How can I justify the Cuban Adjustment Act when there are people coming from Cuba saying that they come - that they… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do… — Kajol Copy Share Image
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man. — Alfred Edward Housman Copy Share Image
I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that… — Mary Fairfax Copy Share Image
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You don't need to justify your rights as a citizen - that inverts the model of responsibility. The government must justify its… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. — Charb Copy Share Image
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence. — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
