I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive,… — Emily St. John Mandel Copy Share Image
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator. This means ... that he should be able… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When you value your integrity at the highest level, living alignment with your word and following through with your commitments no matter… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable… — Eytan Fox Copy Share Image
From Christ on down to Edison, the men who have achieved most have been those who met with the most stubborn forms… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“I paved the path to the very place I don’t want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn’t… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
