Rationalizations Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
By its attempt to regulate and govern the private businesses, which are miscalled public accommodations in the bill, this proposal would inject the Government into… — Strom Thurmond
The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would… — Douglas Wilson
It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges… — Minor White
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. — Freda Adler
Don't knock rationalization.Â Where would we be without it?Â I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations.Â They're… — Jeff Goldblum
We like t'believe that everything's got an explanation...that our years on this earth make a safe kinda sense. We build ourselves up with explantions and… — Jonathan Kent
Many of the religious apologists out there are not stupid people, they are often brilliant. People working in the field of theology and philosophy smart… — PZ Myers
You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable. I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I… — Richard Ramirez
It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices. — Quentin L. Cook
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. — Barbara Deming
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.… — David Sheff
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and… — Erich Fromm
You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life into proposed neighbourhood… — Jane Jacobs
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
The endless, agonizing recycling of what might have been, soon followed by a litany of rationalizations and self-deceptions as you struggle to reconcile the void… — Jon Krakauer
Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on. — J R Ward

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