Quotes About Justification

Vladimir Putin has to create foreign enemies, and he also has to justify... he has to claim... he can't acknowledge that there's a legitimate protest against his authoritarian rule, so he's got to blame it on Hilary Clinton.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

pour le bon motif!

How could a woman who had an abortion not feel guilt or some sense of remorse? How could she justify what she'd done? Whom else could she blame when everyone was telling her it's her choice? Without facing the truth and confessing it, how could she be forgiven Who could she be restored? How could she be free?

I salve my own conscience. I give him the surcease of religion before betraying him. Thus may I say to myself that he has gone where I cannot go.

This . . . rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

You don't have to consider everything true, you just have to consider it necessary. Lies are made into a universal system.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

A NASCAR guy can drop-kick another driver through his car window and it is just considered part of the sport. Hockey players drop their sticks and pound on one another on a regular basis and no one dares blame it on anything other than just a boiling, competitive spirit.

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

Winning excuses everything.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.

I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.

The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.

Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

A novel, even a social realist one, can't simply be a comprehensive rendering of what is. A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.

Sometimes, we do things we don't feel good about to survive. It doesn't mean you're a bad person." His sympathy, his assurance had brought her perilously close to tears. But she couldn't cry about this. She had known what she was getting into. No strings.

Thus does the Myth of Progress become a justification for exercising dictatorial power to eliminate all opposition. Today, totalitarianism amounts to strict, forced regimentation of the Grand March toward Progress. It is the method by which true believers in Progress aim to keep all of society moving forward toward utopia in lockstep, both in their outward actions and in their innermost thoughts.

escuadrones de la muerte evangélicos» integrados por agentes de la Policía Nacional Civil que pertenecen a distintas sectas religiosas. «Estamos librando —dice— una lucha contra el Mal. Así se justifican los asesinatos extrajudiciales».

If the past is to be called upon to legitimize the present, as it so frequently is, then the veracity of such a past has to be continuously vetted.