Justifying Quotes

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Deportation is a decision taken by the home secretary under statute, The new grounds will include fostering hatred, advocating violence to further a person's beliefs,… — Tony Blair
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talks that would describe it as… — E. M. Forster
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been… — C.S. Lewis
Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of… — Jimmy Carter
We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this… — Michael Fassbender
Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of… — Ron Paul
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence… — Marco Rubio
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which… — Jack London
It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of… — Stephen Covey
The pitch to which he was aroused was tremendous. All the fighting blood of his breed was up in him and surging through him. This… — Jack London
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his… — Leo Tolstoy
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
How can I tell Bob that my happiness streams from having wrenched a piece out of my life, a piece of hurt and beauty, and… — Sylvia Plath
Oh my, justifying reasons why Is an absolutely insane resolution to live by ((Live High)) — Jason Mraz
Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it. — Ralph Ellison
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman
Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment,… — Daniel Goleman
Your race devotes itself to justifying its errors, not correcting them — Karen Marie Moning
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples. — Pema Chodron

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