Justifying Quotes

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Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person. — Jean Kilbourne
It's not necessary for you to exacerbate your contrast with struggle in order to get it into a higher place. It is not necessary to… — Esther Hicks
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as… — E. M. Forster
The ego is a self-justifying historian which seeks only that information that agrees with it, rewrites history when it needs to, and does not even… — Anthony Greenwald
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions,… — Michael Foley
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in… — Thomas Szasz
I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this… — Ron Reagan
Virtue debases itself in justifying itself. — Voltaire
Let's develop theories patiently and honestly thinking them out, in order to promptly act against them - acting and justifying our actions with new theories… — Fernando Pessoa
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that… — Pema Chodron
Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least… — Isaiah Washington
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself. — Charles Spurgeon
In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right… — Leo Tolstoy
People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed. — Lee Greenwood
Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. — Peter Mandelson
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly. — Ron Reagan
I'm tired of justifying what I've said. — Jose Canseco
Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So,… — Derek Jacobi
The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating to kill a… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't… — Charlize Theron

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