Quotes About Rationalization

I know, Ezra, that I tend to be a bit impulsive at times, but it all seems so reasonable at the time I do these things, and so unreasonable when everyone looks back at what happened and what I did

A sociedade de consumo é programada do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

A sociedade de consumo é programação do cotidiano: ela manipula e quadricula racionalmente a vida individual e social em todos os seus interstícios; tudo se torna artifício e ilusão a serviço do lucro capitalista e das classes dominantes.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

We did what people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be. What is my story now, I wonder?

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

never seem unable to find a reason for thinking I am being virtuous when I make excuses for myself.

Der Zauber geht aufs bloße Tun, aufs Mittel über, kurz, auf die Industrie. Die Formalisierung der Vernunft ist bloß der intellektuelle Ausdruck der maschinellen Produktionsweise. Das Mittel wird fetischisiert: es absorbiert die Lust.

ideology that 'gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the truth that addiction creates suffering.

It is probable that the most inhuman monsters, even the Himmlers and the Mengeles, convince themselves that they are engaged in noble and courageous acts.

When you conquer somebody and suppress them, you have to have a reason for it. You can't just say 'I'm a son of a bitch' and I wanted to rob them. So you have to say it's for their good or they deserve it or they actually benefit from it and we're helping them and so on.

we humans have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth. But

People who are wrong during particularly important moments inevitably spend the rest of their lives trying to explain how their wrongness was paradoxically correct, or—at the very least—why their wrongness "felt right at the time," which is very, very different from being authentically correct.

Self-deception allows us to create a consistent narrative for ourselves that we actually believe. I'm not saying that the truth doesn't matter. It does. But self-deception is how we survive.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Why do I do anything? I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Logic is the last refuge of a coward.

That last part wasn't true, and he sort of knew it, but if you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to?

We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror our image of ourselves. Our lies about what is really happening in our lives are what we use to "patch up" our ego with rationalizations and justifications, all of which conceal from us the fact that we cannot really do anything because we have no Being.

But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.