Justification Quotes

368 quotes by 302 authors

There are only two answers for the handling of people from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale, neither one of which has anything to do… — L. Ron Hubbard
In time of peace there can, at all events, be no justification for the creation of a permanent debt by the Federal Government. Its limited… — Martin Van Buren
Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. — Dario Fo
I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of… — Rich Mullins
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who… — William Vickrey
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris
Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate… — Jim C. Hines
This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts… — John L. Lewis
Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed,… — David Benatar
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one.… — Kate Adie
It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. — Ruth Hurmence Green
Do we really need school? I don't mean education, just forced schooling: six classes a day, five days a week, nine months a year, for… — John Taylor Gatto
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification… — Hilary of Poitiers
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man… — Dalai Lama
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism. — Robert M. Hutchins
These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is… — Paul Krugman
Our current draconian laws prohibiting the use of marijuana by responsible adults are doubly flawed. Not only does such prohibition violate fundamental freedoms but also.… — Nadine Strossen
The ascent to the divine Life is the human journey, the Work of works, the acceptable Sacrifice. This alone is man's real business in the… — Sri Aurobindo
The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do… — Jacques Barzun
Ego's trick is to make us lose sight of our interdependence. That kind of ego-thought gives us a perfect justification to look out only for… — Gelek Rimpoche

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