Quotes About Justification

Whereas theism justified traditional agriculture in the name of God, humanism has justified modern industrial farming in the name of Man.

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

We use God to justify our actions when in fact it is our own instinct for survival that pushes us on.

When we turn to sin, whatever it is—lying, gossiping, sexual immorality—we are doing it because we are trying to solve a problem.

The most common lesson of history is that the butchery of one mass of people by another is, in the minds of the butchers, sanctioned by their god.

Dalam tindakan terkecilnya sekalipun, manusia selalu dibayangi motivasi sosial, manusia butuh justifikasi dari lingkungannya.

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

He still looked cute enough to justify what was starting to happen, whatever that was.

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

Never justify your actions, because your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe it.

Nunca justificar sus acciones, porque tus amigos no lo necesitan, y tus enemigos no lo creerán.

EXIT's justification was that until a law permitting voluntary euthanasia was passed (which would place responsibility to help primarily on physi­cians), people had no alternative but to take their dying into their own hands.

Stephanie had no problem doing what she was told, just so long as she was given a good reason why she should.

While my insides may be rotten, I still like a good reason to kill someone. It has to be either business, personal, or out of sheer boredom.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.