Generalizations about the "way women are" and estimates of what is appropriate for most women no longer justify denying opportunity to women… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg 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
“Football teams that lost their matches can have many other chances to play in successive seasons; but a soul that is lost… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think what we need is better understanding of how to do risk analysis of a CDO, but that they still can… — Robert F. Engle Copy Share Image
I never proclaimed to be perfect, and I don't justify a mistake that I made. You own it. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
“Don’t bore me with the facts, because once I’m finally forced to face them I will find myself desperately wishing that I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that… — Danny Masterson Copy Share Image
Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Though it's harder to justify the use of a cadaver for practicing nose jobs than it is for practicing coronary bypasses, it… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
When I see people with an interesting gap year, if they can explain it, if they can justify it, if they can… — Jean-Pascal Tricoire Copy Share Image
The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
