Quotes About Justification

Let it be our great concern to see on what terms we stand with our Bibles, whether they justify us or condemn us now; for the Judge of all will proceed by that rule.

The end must justify the means.

The ends must justify the means.

Men are weak. They accomplish the worst only by remaining unaware of it until they grow accustomed to it and find themselves justified by the "greatness" of rigorous discipline and the orders of an irresistible leader.

In the last analysis, phenomenology is neither a materialism nor a philosophy of mind. It's proper work is to unveil the pre-theoretical layer on which both of these idealizations find their relative justification and are gone beyond.

Beneath Cartesian nature, which theoretical activity sooner or later constructs, there emerges an anterior stratum, which is never suppressed, and which demands justification once the development of knowledge reveals the gaps in Cartesian science

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She could lay down a perfect argument and they just invented new bullshit on the spot to justify why the answer was still no. When people said, Convince me, she knew it didn't mean they had an open mind. It meant they had power and wanted to enjoy it a minute.

That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

Arguments for war based on the principle of 'setting the world an example' are always dangerous. They can be used to justify quite disproportionate responses, as occurred in South-east Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. They tend to be selective: why for instance did Britain not use force in 1965 to uphold the concept of majority self-determination in Rhodesia?

The monastic life is not only quite devoid of value as a means of justification before God, but he also looks upon its renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

Što ima više svetih skloništa iza kojih se ljudi kriju, sve je više prostora za ljudsko zlo. ?ovjek uvijek izmisli razlog izvan sebe, da bi se oslobodio odgovornosti i krivice.

Ostala su mu za opravdanje i utjehu samo tri razloga: sudbina koja je ja?a od nas, njegovo pravovremeno upozorenje da se ?uvam ?avola u sebi, i nada da ?u mu na kraju re?i grubu rije?. Sa?uva?e je u srcu kao hamajliju, u sje?anju kao lijek, u savjesti kao opravdanje. (…) Ali mu ne dam zadovoljstvo da se opere mojom grubom rije?i, toliko nije zaslužio.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Most people who know they've fucked up manage to find a way to justify themselves.

Parents need to somehow justify the lives of sputum, tuition, and sarcastic abuse to which they've condemned themselves, and so make their own grandiose claims about parenthood's ineffable fulfillments and beneficent effects—that one cannot possibly know what real love is unless you've had children, that it is life's ultimate purpose, et cetera.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

I am discovering that it is truly a mistake--it may even be a moral wrong, in fact--to judge. Truth is too complex, too contradictory, too mercurial, to be one-sided, though it is human nature to prefer the reassurance and ease of firm judgement. Judgement helps us to justify our less savory actions.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

The human mind is capable of rationalizing any behavior.

I'm not being defensive, I'm just defending myself.

From an intuitionistic standpoint, mathematics, when correctly carried on, would not need any justification from without, a buttress from the side or a foundation from below: it would wear its own justification on its face.

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.