Rationalized Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
— Russell Banks
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Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
— Octavio Paz
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Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of…
— Elie Wiesel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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