Best 138 quotes in «justification quotes» category

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.

When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning.

When the highest value in a community is loyalty to the greater cause, meaning the continuity of the status quo, all means to this end are imbued with religious significance, and are thereby justified. "Hasidic Noir

When we kill people, we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.

Whoever believed in Jesus Christ, shall be justified by faith in Son of God.

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

I hope God does not look like a bunch of wealthy white European dudes who are going to script the justification for the subjugation and legal ownership of other human beings based upon the construction of race as a biological phenomenon.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

Popularity has become its own justification.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

One whispered yes becomes the wind song over an ocean of no's.

Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

The only justification of rebellion is success.

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.