Quotes About Justification

Listen, I'm always going to defend my character, even when she's doing something that I don't approve of, because that's what you have to do to love them and play them.

If you've written something that you believe is true, and if you can afford to defend it, then you've got to defend it.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

I can't imagine David Lean justifying why he went to the desert to shoot 'Lawrence of Arabia.'

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

The devil made me do it.

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

The dangerous part about excuses is that a lot of them make sense.

Just because you're offended doesn't mean your right.

Even religion had to invent some kind of science for itself (Theology = The philosophy of divinity) To justify its existence.

But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.

If the end doesn't justify the means, what does? (Robert Moses)

we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided.

Once we have made a choice or taken a stand, we will encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Those pressures will cause us to respond in ways that justify our earlier decision.

when we ask someone to do us a favor, we will be more successful if we provide a reason.

I needed to determine whether those reasons were genuine or mere justifications for my decision to stop there. So I asked myself the crucial question, "Knowing what I know about the real price of this gasoline, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice again?" Concentrating on the first burst of impression I sensed, I received a clear and unqualified answer. I would have driven right past.

They used the façade of Bork's pinched academic analysis to justify killing off antitrust.

One of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy," observed economist John Kenneth Galbraith, "is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.