The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it. — George Deukmejian Copy Share Image
Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver Copy Share Image
The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not… — Laozi Copy Share Image
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation. — Vance Havner 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
“Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.” — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one… — Ernest Becker 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 have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer Copy Share Image
The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
What our view of the effectiveness of religion in history does at once make evident as to its nature is--first, its necessary… — William Ernest Hocking Copy Share Image
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I spoke to my father - my father's from Pakistan and he's also a lawyer - I said to him, "Well what… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a… — Ferdinand Columbus Copy Share Image
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Active liberty is particularly at risk when law restricts speech directly related to the shaping of public opinion, for example, speech that… — Stephen Breyer 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
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