Rationalized Quotes

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Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the range of my character at any given moment, I have acted in the only way it seemed to me I could have acted.… — Anne Truitt
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and… — Lewis Mumford
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… — Norman Mailer
Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is… — Pier Paolo Pasolini
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an… — William J. Brennan
A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth created… — Paulo Freire
Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe… — Samuel Chadwick
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one develops a number of generally… — Stefan Kieszling
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling… — Northrop Frye
We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition… — Manmohan Singh
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. — Russell Banks
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. — Octavio Paz
Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations Â— not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of… — Elie Wiesel
Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty,… — Ron Paul
I believe until fairly recently our destructions of nature were more or less unwitting -- the by-products, so to speak, of our ignorance or weakness… — Wendell Berry
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so… — Joseph Campbell
Europe is overpopulated, the world will soon be in the same condition, and if the self-reproduction of man is not rationalized... we shall have war. — Henri Bergson
If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what… — Damon Galgut
It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and… — Charles Sanders Peirce

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