Rationalizations Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
— Freda Adler
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Don't knock rationalization. Where would we be without it? I don't know anyone who'd get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're…
— Jeff Goldblum
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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
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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
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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
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It is important to rise above rationalizations and make the best choices.
— Quentin L. Cook
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The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
— Max Lerner
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
— Barbara Deming
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.
— J R Ward
Who Wrote These Rationalizations Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Rationalizations Quotes as follows: