Quotes About Justification

Every lie is two lies — the lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it.

Three arguments (triadic) should be avoided where possible. More than three (polyadic) requires very special justification—and then shouldn't be used anyway.

Who can justify the expense of a six-lane highway through the middle of a small town that anticipates growth? Who would want such a road through their town?

soon after being expelled he caused the expulsion of the other members of his secret socialist group in the seminary by reporting their names to the rector. According to these sources, he admitted his action and justified it to the expelled boys on the ground that they would become good revolutionaries now that they had lost the opportunity for careers as priests.

Everything we've got, or so we think, comes from natural talent and hard work. But with other people, we are quick to ascribe to them all kinds of Machiavellian tactics. This allows us to justify whatever we do, no matter the results.

And as with Louis, he will not admit the truth, but will find an excuse to rid himself of your presence.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

The choice isn't always about what you do, son, but why you do it.

Once mere excuses are allowed, inevitably lesser and lesser excuses will become acceptable, until law itself is gone.

He may be a scholar, but he's first a man who believes—with certain justification—that he was betrayed by his government.

US/THEM-ING TYPICALLY involves inflating the merits of Us concerning core values—we are more correct, wise, moral, and worthy when it comes to knowing what the gods want/running the economy/raising kids/fighting this war. Us-ness also involves inflating the merits of our arbitrary markers, and that can take some work—rationalizing why our food is tastier, our music more moving, our language more logical or poetic.

An upset is our maker's way of telling us that we need to learn something. It is a tap on our shoulder saying, 'Pay attention. You have something important to learn. If you lie, blame, justify, or deny the upset, you waste the upset and will waste a precious gem of wisdom..

it was only when children's actual economic value declined, because they were no longer necessary additions to the household labor force, that they became the priceless little treasures we know them as today. Once they started costing more to raise than they contributed to the household economy, there had to be some justification for having them, which is when the story that having children was a big emotionally fulfilling thing first started taking hold.

Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7)

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

You can use logic to justify just about anything, that's its power and its flaw.

A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.