Quotes About Justification

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

If someone's beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs.

nothing is wrong and nothing is right in this world, it's all about the matter of justification only.

...you'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.

When someone is delusional, he or she can do anything to justify his or her beliefs.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

When you´re lazy, you find lots of interesting excuses.

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.

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

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.

stop using feelings as an excuse for their actions and the

Er zijn twee soorten schrijvers. De eerste soort wil zich, zichzelf, rechtvaardigen als mens. De tweede soort wil zich rechtvaardigen als schrijver.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.