Quotes About Justification

Abusive?" Jackson screwed up his face. "I ain't never abused a woman a day in my life." "Pòp, you just socked Desiree in the face a few weeks ago." "Aww shit. I forgot all about that. She was talking shit about your mother. What did you expect?

ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

Ha creído que, al servicio de Dios, el fin justifica los medios.

El anarquismo es la creencia de que nadie está legitimado para gobernar. Todas las filosofías políticas, desde el derecho divino de los reyes hasta el contrato social de Rousseau, intentan justificar la autoridad. Los anarquistas creen que todas esas teorías fallan, y que por tanto ninguna forma de autoridad es legítima.

Ne t'en fais pas. Les scrupules sont bons pour les privilégiés. Pour nous qui sommes nés pauvres, notre seul salut est dans la ruse. Elle n'aimait pas entendre son frère parler ainsi et affirmer que leur enfance difficile excusait tout, ce qu'il faisait parfois.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

I feel very sorry for people who are trapped in an abusive relationship and keep making excuses for their abuser.

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct, which with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work. —JOHN VON NEUMANN

Give you a reason on compulsion! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

Every why hath a wherefore.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

What is good is only a matter of opinion in secular society. Using society's own standard of goodness, careful observation of the bigger picture may reveal that a particular good has been outweighed by general evil. When a society defines its own morality and then applies it to itself, that society can justify its own serious breaches of character. It is able to lower the standard to the detriment of all.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.

If human beings want to possess human rights, they have to give animals animal rights. But how do I justify the fact that yesterday I ate meat? I lack the courage to think this thought through to the end.

The mind would like us to think that there is such a thing as "justifiable anger," which takes the form of moralistic indignation. If we look at moralistic indignation, we will see that it is propped up by vanity and pride. We like to think how right we are in a situation and how "wrong" the other persons are.

When people tossed around $100,000 like a Frisbee, there was usually a good reason.

Science is what you get when you restrict philosophy to just materialism and empiricism and scrupulously ignore everything else, without any justification. Science invented a materialist, empiricist method to exclude every other philosophical stance. It didn't debate other philosophies, it just referred them to its method, which paradigmatically omitted them! A bit like Christians referring all other religions to the Bible, and never allowing the conversation to extend beyond its pages.

Nobody involved in a conflict thinks they're the villain.