Best 138 quotes in «justification quotes» category

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

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.

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

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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

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

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

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

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

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.

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

Popularity has become its own justification.

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

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.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

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

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 justification of rebellion is success.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

After years of working with missionaries, I am tempted to conclude that their endeavors merely prolong a dying race's agonies for ten or twenty years. The merciful plowman shoots a trusty horse grown too old for service. As philanthropists, might it not be our duty to likewise ameliorate the savages' sufferings by hastening their extinction? Think of your Red Indians, Adam, think on the treaties you Americans abrogate & renege on, time & time & time again. More humane, surely & more honest, just to knock the savages on the head & get it over with?