Character 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 modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“But no moral philosopher, from Aristotle to Aquinas, to John Locke and Adam Smith, divorced economics from a set of moral ends or held…

— Daniel Bell

“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried…

— Martin Luther King Jr

[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The moral justification of capitalism is man’s right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself;…

— Ayn Rand

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It…

— Ayn Rand

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

— Gary L. Francione

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 asshole, by contrast, traffics in and is moved by moral justification—except that moral justification, for him, leads to an entrenched sense of special…

— Aaron James