Justification Quotes

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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.… — Bob Hawke
What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to… — William Blum
If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the… — Peter Singer
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing. — Arthur Miller
The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or… — George Bernard Shaw
To seek a justification for a decision already made. — Ambrose Bierce
Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we… — W. Somerset Maugham
I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there, what… — Stephen Breyer
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork. — Henrik Svensmark
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. — Paul Washer
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new… — Immanuel Wallerstein
There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it. — H. L. Mencken
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it… — Christopher Hitchens
I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some… — Albert Einstein
Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. — Jessica Walter
Just who has imposed on the suffering human race poison gas, barbed wire, high explosives, experiments in eugenics, the formula for zyklon b, heavy artillery,… — David Berlinski
You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it… — Vivian Kubrick
Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in… — John F. Kerry

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