Quotes About Justification

Reasons can always be justified Brahma. The biggest error in life is to believe that your reasons are right and the other person's reasons are wrong.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

Abusive men are masters of excuse making. In this respect they are like substance abusers, who believe that everyone and everything except them is responsible for their actions.

The outcome of the way he argues is that he escapes ever accepting responsibility for what he does. To his unethical way of thinking, you are the cause of everything he does.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.

When a man begins to justify the ways of God to man, he has entered on a very dangerous process.

the secret to being a villain was believing yourself to be a victim.

Success never needs an excuse.

Escrevo sem pensar tudo o que meu inconsciente grita. Penso depois: não só para corrigir, mas para justificar o que escrevi.

The death of 500,000 dead Iraqi children was "a very hard choice, but the price-we think the price is worth it

It came to me…that I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

Murder must be punished, but murder can also be justified.

I've killed a lot of men, Preacher, all brave soldiers on the field. You're the first coward." "Pete, no, no!" Dexter said, raising his hands and falling back into his chair, eyes wide and mouth open. "If it's about Liza, I can explain. No, Pete!

They justified their taking up arms against their queen by claiming they had already obtained the damning evidence

then to shift the blame for it onto the shoulders of others.

the controversy surrounding the eight letters produced by Moray to justify the charges in Buchanan's dossier.

The modern conservative is not even especially modern. He is engaged, on the contrary, in one of man's oldest, best financed, most applauded, and, on the whole, least successful exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. It is an exercise which always involves a certain number of internal contradictions and even a few absurdities.

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... & ... Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. –

The euphoric episode is protected and sustained by the will of those who are involved, in order to justify the circumstances that are making them rich. And it is equally protected by the will to ignore, exorcise, or condemn those who express doubts.