Quotes About Justification

There's nothing gives you so much courage as good reasons

Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true typically turn out to be those accustomed to being controlled— those who are not trusted, given explanations, encouraged to think for themselves, helped to develop and internalize good values, and so on. Control breeds the need for more control, which is used to justify the use of control.

Like any other tool for facilitating the completion of a questionable task, rewards offer a how answer to what is really a why question.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

It is for this reason that

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

Justificarea tiranului pentru crime ÅŸi scuza prostului pentru eÅŸecuri este destinul.

We all got our reasons...good men and bad men. It's all a matter of where you stand.

made myself guilty of mass murder so I could be proclaimed innocent of incompetence.

Every man has his excuses, and the more vile the man becomes, the more touching the story has to be.

You could not even guess at the things that I have done. Awful, evil, obscene. The telling of them alone would make you puke. They nag at me from time to time, but I tell myself I had good reasons. The years pass, the unimaginable becomes everyday, the hideous becomes tedious, the unbearable becomes routine. I push it all into the dark corners of my mind, and it's incredible, the room back there. Amazing, what one can live with.

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.

Folk she'd known to be big on religion had tended to use it as an excuse for doing wrong rather'n a reason not to.

Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A slaughter here, a little torture there. It becomes moral to do things that would be immoral if an ordinary individual did 'em.

The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good.

My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.

The desire to be desire-less is but another desire. The thought that, because this desire purports to be spiritual, it is superior to more mundane desires shows how skilled the mind is at justifying any desire it is attached to.

The Puritans understood that the doctrines of atonement, justification, and reconciliation are meaningless apart from a true understanding of God who condemns sin, and atones for sinners, justifies them, and reconciles them to Himself.

If the cause is big enough, people will justify dishonour.

It's not that the means corrupt the ends. It's that the ends never work, and that's why they need brutal means.

What one believes does not, therefore, have to be proved, and a proposition can be ever so incontrovertibly proven without on that account being believed.

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

We are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.