Quotes About Justification

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

The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

El mundo está lleno de libros. Algunos son hermosos. Algunos llegan a justificar la presencia del hombre sobre la tierra. Incluso los hay que son verdaderamente grandes, genuinamente libres, noblemente generosos. Amamos a estos libros. Nunca a las maniobras que se esconden tras ellos. Son hermosos sus mensajes. Nunca las pugnas a que se llegó para imponerlos.

Trying to make sense of other people's responses to us is a basic human activity. Accepting a mother's [or anyone's] anger by concluding that i is justified is a way of making sense of a difficult relationship. But this acceptance comes at a great cost, for it means that we see their cruelty as our shame.

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

Man's only justification for physical existence is to learn; this is his destiny which he cannot avoid under any circumstances.

People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid their battles. A warrior understands the folly of seeking escapisms, for he knows the world is pervaded by power, which comes at him like the waves of the sea. He either mounts the crest of those waves and surfs them, or he goes down under.

To seek out the disciplined and skilled ways of the hunter is the only true honour we may rightfully claim, and to seek the impeccability of the hunter's spirit is the only possible justification for our existence.

Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.

history is nothing but the backward projection of current grievances, real or imagined, used to justify and inflame resentment.

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

since no mass murder takes place without its perpetrators alleging that they are acting for the good of mankind, philanthropic sentiment can plainly take a multiplicity of forms.

Everyone who experiences this weight of governmental interference and regulation knows how little any of it has to do with its ostensible justification. A great deal of it is an employment scheme of otherwise unemployable scriveners.

I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

What makes a human being want to kill another who has done him no personal harm? Patriotism.

Although I know nothing against myself, yet I am not hereby justified,(4) because if Thy mercy were removed away, in Thy sight should no man living be justified.(5)

There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These mens conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a mans justification.

In Christ are riches of Justification; in Christ are riches of sanctification, riches of consolation, and riches of glorification...Christ's riches are like the eternal springs of the earth, that cannot dry up, but are and shall be diffused by his Spirit and gospel, until his whole house be filled with them.

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.

I've got no interest in justifying myself to a player of mine.