Quotes About Justification

A company of believers is like a prison full of criminals; their intimacy and solidarity is based on what they can least justify about themselves.

Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.

Blaming is just another sorry excuse, and making excuses is the first step towards failure

Responsibility finds a way. Irresponsibilty makes excuses!

Justification should've no place in your life. people who ask for it don't belive you and will never do and people who do believe in you, will never ask for any.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

And I might, in order to justify myself, have told her that I loved her. But the confession of that love, apart from the fact that it could not have told Albertine anything new, would perhaps have made her colder to myself than the harshness and deceit for which love was the sole excuse. To be harsh and deceitful to the person whom we love is so natural!

People leave for a reason. They tell you what it is. They offer the right of reply. They do not just leave. No, that is childish. That is the only absurd hypothesis.

He who is in the wrong believes himself in the right, as was the case with Germany, and he who is in the right supports it with arguments which only appear irrefutable to him because they respond to his anger.

I raised an eyebrow. Since when did they need real news to justify the slugfest? Barry gave me a knowing smile behind the assistant's back as he ducked into his studio.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

You wanted to believe that the sniper had a reason. That he wasn't just a broken guy who'd been abused by his uncle or whatever. Wanting to believe that there's a logic behind insanity.

Okay. Life isn't like the movies—you know, how the bad guys just want to be bad guys, villains. In real life, there aren't very many villains. Mostly, people believe they're doing the right thing. Even the ones who are doing bad things usually believe they're heroes, that whatever terrible thing they're doing is to prevent something worse. They're scared.

Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

The weak ones are there to justify the strong.

A man always has two reasons for what he does--a good one, and the real one.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?