Quotes About Justification

No, there are a good many arguments ye might make about that, but in the end, such choices come down to one: You kill when ye must, and ye live with it after. I remember the face of every man I've killed, and always will. But the fact remains, I am alive and they are not, and that is my only justification, whether it be right or no.

And while I would, if pushed, deny absolutely that it was my fault, it was undeniably on my account.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

Most people justify their actions with excuses they believe cancel out their own accountability. Most people believe they had no choice to do anything other than what they did.

Mes vaidiname daug vaidmen?. Kai kuriuos šiaip, d?l smagumo, kitus d?l to, kad kitiems taip norisi. O dažniausiai - kad apgintume save.

He chuckled as he realized how he'd rationalized betrayal into gallantry. Damn, he was a good lawyer. But

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Aç?k konu?al?m: Her rejim, hatta en otoriter olan bile de?i?ken bir denge durumunda ayakta kalabilir, bu nedenle kendi bask? donan?m?n?n varl???n? sürekli olarak hakl? göstermesi gerekir ve bask? uygulayacak bir ?eylere gereksinme duyar.

Let's be frank: every regime, even the most authoritarian, survives in a situation of unstable equilibrium, whereby it needs to justify constantly the existence of its repressive apparatus, therefore of something to repress.

Yet our common moral knowledge is as real as arithmetic, and probably just as plain. Paradoxically, maddeningly, we appeal to it even to justify wrongdoing; rationalization is the homage paid by sin to guilty knowledge.

The difference concerned only the logical--not even, perhaps, the temporal--order of three steps. Paul said that a man (1) first believes on Christ, (2) then is justified before God, (3) then immediately proceeds to keep God's law. The Judaizers said that a man (1) believes on Christ and (2) keeps the law of God the best he can, and then (3) is justified.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason and the real reason.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

I rationalize this by telling myself that while the work might be ignoble, it's not necessarily evil. We're not Hitler - we're just annoying people.

An obvious challenge people face is that they don't know what they want. They're far too busy justifying what they think they need. They haven't learned to be brutally honest with themselves and others. They're still living in fear. Learning to clarify what you want without justification or apology is vital to going 10x since 10x is based on want, not need.

Whether rightly or wrongly, we are the only country in the world that believes it won a war by bombing—specifically by bombing cities with weapons of mass destruction, firebombs, and atomic bombs—and believes that it was fully justified in doing so. It is a dangerous state of mind.

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions-- rationalizations-- justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Everyone finds justification for his or her views in logic and analysis, but a personal philosophy often emerges from some archaic part of the mind, an early idea of how the world should be.