Justification Quotes

368 quotes by 293 authors

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now. — Jonathan Safran Foer
They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism.… — C.S. Lewis
[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. — Christopher Hitchens
There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or… — Terry Goodkind
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is… — Mario Puzo
I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even… — R C Sproul
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of â€œjust this once. — Clayton Christensen
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's intelligence, not by… — Wendell Berry
Justified means just as if you've never sinned. — Joyce Meyer
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need… — Jose Saramago
Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like… — Jodi Picoult
Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure… — Simone de Beauvoir
I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as… — Ayn Rand
There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. — Simone de Beauvoir
What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's… — Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the… — Stephen Hawking
But mostly, I remembered what Iâ€™ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life… — Katherine Applegate
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they… — Ayn Rand
The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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