Justification Quotes

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The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error… — Henry Steele Commager
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to… — Ayn Rand
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for… — Ayn Rand
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and individuated, then how can anyone… — Murray Rothbard
The philosopher of science is not much interested in the thought processes which lead to scientific discoveries; he looks for a logical analysis of the… — Hans Reichenbach
Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts… — A C Dixon
In justification the word to be addressed to man is believe - only believe; in sanctification the word must be 'watch, pray, and fight.' — J C Ryle
Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument. — Richard Dawkins
Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life… — Thomas Adams
Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not… — Charles Krauthammer
The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered… — Pope Benedict XVI
Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow. — Martin Luther
An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where… — Paul D. MacLean
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over… — Herbert Hoover
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will… — Anita Brookner
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far more… — Margaret E. Knight
The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up. — Jesse Jackson
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. — Laurence Tribe
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in… — Nikolai Berdyaev

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