Acceptable Quote by Albert Bandura

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.

— Albert Bandura

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts…

— Steven Pinker

Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it…

— Bhagat Singh

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can…

— Hannah Arendt

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

Morals excite passions, and produce or prevent actions. Reason of itself is utterly impotent in this particular. The rules of morality, therefore, are not…

— David Hume

“The world has far too much morality, at least in the sense of activity of people's moral instincts. If you look, and this become…

— Steven Pinker

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than…

— David Graeber

“The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease…

— Steven Pinker

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible…

— Carroll Quigley