The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and… — Mookie Wilson Copy Share Image
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse.… — Valeria Lukyanova Copy Share Image
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is… — Ralph Chaplin Copy Share Image
“That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort,… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The formal granting of independence created a more Manichean system of dependency and exploitation, since for those who practice it, it means… — Kwame Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Great art is more than a transient refreshment. It is something which adds to the permanent richness of the soul's self-attainment. It… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The beautiful is and remains beautiful though it arouse no emotion whatever, and though there be no one to look at it.… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
'Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image