Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding… — Stefan Collini Copy Share Image
“The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Bottom line: Outbursts of anger - including screaming, throwing things, banging inanimate objects, slamming doors, squealing tires, stomping around, making threats, shoving,… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted… — Harry Leslie Smith Copy Share Image
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
“The Eye of Karma by Stewart Stafford Do we still rationalise things we do? Karma's cold, clear eye sees through, Soiled laundry… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment. — Lakhdar Boumediene Copy Share Image
I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
They (the novelists) became the voice of the citizen against the ubiquitous raison d'état, which reappeared endlessly to justify everything from unjust… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
