Quotes About Justification

His job already had him lying and manipulating me. My past had me lying and manipulating him. Both of us thought we were right.

Is your father really evil?" I heard myself ask. "Yes." "Because he drank, did drugs?" "No, honey. Because God made him that way, and he liked it. Your father had an excuse. My father doesn't.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.

If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.

It's not bragging if you can back it up.

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

Aucun destin ne justifierait une quelconque exaltation de quiconque

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have no legitimacy.

Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.

But, then, you were born a pagan; I am trying laboriously to make myself one. I can take nothing for granted, I can enjoy nothing as it comes along. Beauty, pleasure, art, women - I have to invent an excuse, a justification for everything that's delightful. Otherwise I can't enjoy it with an easy conscience.

But men are not content merely desire; they like to have a logical or pseudo-logical justification for their desires; they like to believe that when they want something, it is not merely for their own personal advantage, but that their desires are dictated by pure reason, by nature, by God Himself.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons – that's philosophy.

But please be careful—and never, never think that you are justified in doing something wrong just because you are trying to do something right.

Miss Taylor smiled. "I shall assume that the verb in that sentence you've just uttered is implied, and that the phrase that you had in mind was That doesn't include…which would, of course, justify the use of the accusative me, rather than the nominative I. I assume that.

often our tears have no particular justification; they are tears for something larger about the world than any private sorrow.

Moral commonplaces are amazingly useful when we can find little in ourselves with which to justify our actions.

Los proverbios morales son asombrosamente útiles en los casos en que, por mucho que lo intentemos, no se nos ocurre nada para justificarnos.