Quotes About Rationalized

What Höss rationalised as hate for the enemies of the state might be better described as a sense of power and contempt for the inmates fostered in the guards by the camp system.

Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about.

The community of today is the planet, not the bounded nation…patterns of coordinated agression can only break it into factions". We are in a time of "rationalized avarice and sanctified misunderstanding." Joseph Campbell, 1949

Victory does not come with wishes and non- rationalized decisions. Victory will get through fights and challenges with the highest restraint that will shake every fear.

The power holder may be the person whose "private motives are displaced onto public objects and rationalized in terms of public interest

Far from being a mere product of evil, the destruction of textual materials was goal-oriented and carefully rationalized within struggles between competing worldviews that wracked the last century.

This rationalized interpretation of religion has resulted in two distinctively modern phenomena: fundamentalism and atheism. The two are related.

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 the nature of the human.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Unsportsmanlike predator-killing is always rationalized as defence of property—usually someone else's property. This excuse is getting too thin to pass muster among thinking conservationists.

The founding fathers never once rationalized getting in power and having control so they could stay in power.

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 and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

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.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.

I overlooked some obvious problems, made excuses for others.

Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction.

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 devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

Toute transformation sociale (...) s'est fondée sur de nouvelles bases métaphysiques et idéologiques; ou plutôt, sur des émotions et intuitions plus profondes, dont l'expression rationalisée prend la forme du cosmos et de la nature de l'homme.

To himself, Ponzi rationalized the difference between his Securities Exchange Company and copycat upstarts: "Perhaps my activities were not entirely within the law," he allowed. "But my intent was honest. I was in a critical position and I had fallen into it without any intention to do wrong. Now that I was in it, I was trying my hardest to pull myself out of it, without hurting my investors.