Accused Quote by John Calvin

“The purpose is not to justify or rationalize but to understand. Justification is another form of judgment every bit as debilitating as condemnation. When…

— Gabor Maté

“Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is…

— Frank Delaney

“guilt force justification!”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“Excuse tries to justify.”

— Toba Beta

“Self-justification is unjust.”

— Toba Beta

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.

— Anonymous

“An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.”

— Brandon Sanderson

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

— Thomas Hobbes

“Any reason could be made for self-justification.”

— Toba Beta

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

— Ambrose Bierce

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

— Anonymous

“Justifying a demonic act does not make the actor less demonic; justifying only makes the negator more complicit.”

— Glenn Hefley