Justifications Quotes
34 quotes by 33 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved,…
— Faraaz Kazi
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Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our…
— Steven Pressfield
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Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
— Orrin Woodward
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Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.
— Charles M. Vest
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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
— E. P. Thompson
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It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about…
— Chris Hayes
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I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and,…
— Chris Hayes
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I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
— Julie Kenner
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We want character but without unyielding conviction; we want strong morality but without the emotional burden of guilt or shame; we want virtue but without…
— James Davison Hunter
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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
— Aaron Swartz
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With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie…
— Mike Rinder
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When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
— James Cromwell
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If this incomplete ayaan hirsi wants fame sooo much then she shouldn't use religion as a base to be known. Some people justify their in…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals,…
— Walt Whitman
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the…
— Thomas Szasz
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