Quotes About Justification

But what progressives fail to understand is that every social practice rests on certain assumptions of what the world is like—a worldview. When a society accepts the practice, it absorbs the worldview that justifies it.

The dichotomy of man versus environment, or jobs versus environment, or prosperity versus environment, is a dangerous fiction constructed to justify greed. It cynically warrants destruction in the name of the false prophet of progress. That is what I believe.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Take my professional word for it: everybody's got ten good reasons to do away with everybody else. It's just nobody knows how.

Man is always looking for some prop on which to lean. He is always looking for some excuse to justify failure. This revelation gives man no excuse for failure. His concept of himself is the cause of all the circumstances of his life. All changes must first come from within himself; and if he does not change on the outside it is because he has not changed within.

No existe justificación divina para el mal. Tal y como afirmaba Darwin: "Dios debe ser débil o perverso".

No doubt her uncle had his reasons.

Modern stupidities are more irritating than ancient stupidities because their proselytes seek to justify them in the name of reason.

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Whoever does not understand that two perfectly contrary attitudes can both be perfectly justified ought not to engage in criticism.

Probablemente en otras épocas abundaron las porquerías tanto como en la nuestra, pero en ninguna tuvieron los discursos que las justifican y alaban popularidad semejante.

The modern world is condemned precisely by all that with which modern man seeks to justify it.

Todo necesita justificar su existencia, salvo la obra de arte.

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

And this fact again illustrates a major problem in Latour's formulation. If his article was meant to be a formal, or semiotic, reading of Einstein's text, it is not relevant to arbitrarily substitute words whose meanings are not justified by the text. Furthermore, the very premise of his "semiotic" reading of a text in translation begs the question of whether he is imputing meaning to the author or the translator.

The human mind is a swirl of activity mostly centered around self preservation and self justification.

My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.