Justification Quotes

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Leaving traces of ourselves, as in creative productivity, could then be seen as part of the definition of consciousness for us as well. We know… — Breyten Breytenbach
Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life? — Laura Marling
In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive… — Tariq Ramadan
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact… — Frank Herbert
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many… — Vitit Muntarbhorn
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience… — Whitney Tilson
Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. — Hideki Yukawa
On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it. — Albert Einstein
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as… — Naomi Wolf
The conviction of the justification of using even the most brutal weapons is always dependent on the presence of a fanatical belief in the necessity… — Adolf Hitler
In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than… — Stanley Kubrick
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong, and… — Jonathan Haidt
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A person does not...stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions with regard to ourself exposed on… — Marcel Proust
For some reason which I have failed to understand, many people like the system [scientific totalitarianism] when it is Russian but disliked the very same… — Bertrand Russell
There are multiple descriptions of the same real world situation. The only justification for language is to empower yourself. If the verbal description you create… — Moshe Feldenkrais
Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of… — Irena Sendler
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle

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