Justification Quote by Wellington Mara

“Self-justification is unjust.”

— Toba Beta

So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the…

— Samuel Johnson

“In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it makes itself the centre of everything; it is inconvenient…

— Blaise Pascal

Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

— Max Muller

There is no need of justifying yourself to others, until you can justify yourself to your own conscience.

— Senora Roy

“Say to yourself first thing in the morning: today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious, unsocial. All this has…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief…

— Isabella Poretsis

“A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from “What you’ve done angers me” to “What you’ve done is…

— Gavin de Becker

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his…

— Francis Galton

Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since…

— Lyndon B. Johnson