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Quotes About Justification

You know what the scariest part is about people like him? Everything he's doing makes perfect sense in his own mind.
~ David Wong
My point is, I have a job, just like you. I get a paycheck, I get memos. Just like you, I have superiors, and they have superiors who I am not allowed to speak to. Orders filter down from on high, arriving at my level stripped entirely of all context or rationale or justification. Orders do not come with an illustration of how they serve the overall goals of the organization. Same as any other job.
~ David Wong
There's no excuse for excuses. Many of us are good at finding justification for behavior in men that isn't acceptable. We sometimes let them get away with things that hurt and upset us because we concentrate on what we like about HIM and the crumbs that give us gratification.
~ Daylle Deanna Schwartz
It's very easy to blame others, but very difficult to prove your ability.
~ G.K. Dutta
On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another
~ Mohadesa Najumi
Exist? o limit? a rezisten?ei în fiecare. Când e atins?, nu mai ai poft? s? te justifici.
~ Octavian Paler, Un om norocos
Todo es justificable desde el propio punto de vista, y cada cual tiene el suyo, cargarse de razón es muy fácil.
~ Javier Marías
Words, words, words … There is always a higher purpose, a greater goal at the end of the road, a nobler cause, a better justification to dress up the final aim, which is still to take power. Politicians always find arguments and excuses to talk about the only thing that interests them: power.
~ Javier Moro
Our desires seek out supporting reasons and tend to ignore facts and arguments that do not fit in with them.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
Everybody has his reasons.
~ Jean Renoir
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
~ Jean Renoir
The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.
~ Jean Renoir
You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.
~ Jean Renoir
Everyone has his reasons." Octave (Jean Renoir) in "The Rules of the Game.
~ Jean Renoir
The really terrible thing is that everyone has his reasons.
~ Jean Renoir
The truly terrible thing is, everyone has his reasons
~ Jean Renoir
trop fameux Gott mit uns, aujourd'hui repris par George Bush dans le cadre de sa lutte contre l'« axe du Mal », l'homme justifie ses intentions belliqueuses en utilisant la religion à ses propres fins, et n'hésite pas à déclarer la guerre en son nom. Une pratique mal décelée dans le bouddhisme, encore que ce soit en terre bouddhique que se sera perpétrée, on l'a dit, la folle aventure génocidaire de Pol Pot. Une
~ Jean-Marie Pelt
On this view, God is the cause of physical evil. The question arose, then, whether He is also the cause of sin and of moral evil; and, if so, how He could have invented the very thing that corrupts His creation. The attempt to vindicate God's will was called theodicy in Greek, and it is this term that is traditionally used to refer to all human attempts to justify the existence of evil in a world that has been perfectly made. Theodicies
~ Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Documents usually describe what we need, but not why we need it.
~ Jeff Patton
Yes, somehow I'd reached the point of mental instability where I was making up excuses to justify my actions to my own brain.
~ Jeff Strand
Take two pictures representing the same subject; one may be dismissed as illustration if it is dominated by the subject and has no other justification but the subject, the other may be called painting if the subject is completely absorbed in the style, which is its own justification, whatever the subject, and has an intrinsic value.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There is nothing more base than a certain loathing for the oppressed that goes to great lengths to justify their downtrodden state by pointing to their shortcomings. Not even great and lofty philosophers are entirely free of this failing.
~ Elias Canetti
You hate me, don't you?" I didn't hate him at all, but I wanted to hate him. That would have made it all very easy. Hate—like faith or love or war—justifies everything.
~ Elie Wiesel
But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert