Justification Quotes

368 quotes by 300 authors

The usual justification for eating extra meals is that it keeps the metabolism 'revved up' so that weight loss is easier. There is, however, very… — Andrew Weil
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or… — Amy Winehouse
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator,… — Archibald MacLeish
I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge… — Noam Chomsky
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting… — Mark Twain
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. — Ayn Rand
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… — Cormac McCarthy
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. — C.S. Lewis
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. — Charles M. Schulz
What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… — H.G. Wells
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — Margaret Atwood
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. — Azar Nafisi
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets — Khalil Gibran
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't — Thomas Keneally
I am not your justification for existence. — Margaret Atwood

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