Quotes About Justification

Because of the importance of perceiving the means as morally acceptable, there may be a strong ongoing need for justification in idealistic evil. The person is doing something that would normally be regarded as wrong, such as killing or hurting people. Somehow, the person must sustain the belief that it is right. This is often done by focusing on the goodness of the overriding goal.

The use of violent or oppressive means to solve problems is a common feature in both instrumental and idealistic evil. There is an important difference, however, and that is the extent to which the ends justify the means.

A first conclusion was that the actions seemed much less evil—less wrong—to the perpetrators than to the victims.

The challenge of this book is to understand how perpetrators come to do things that others see as evil.

há tristezas de dois tipos. Primeiro, são as tristezas diurnas, quando o mundo está iluminado pelo sol. Tristezas para as quais há razões.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Belki s?k?nt?m?n en büyük taraf? ,sana hiçbir ?ey belli etmemek kayg?s? idi.Sak?n,sak?n!...Senin yüzünden bir ?ey yapt???m? iddia edecek de?ilim...Ne yapt?msa kendi hesab?ma,kendi rezilli?imle yapt?m.Zaten i?in tefsir edilecek taraf? yok.Hiçbir ?ey beni mazur gösteremez.

bizim en büyük maharetimiz nefsimizden beraat karar? almakt?r. Vicdan azab? dedikleri ?ey, ancak bir hafta sürer. Ondan sonra en a?a??l?k katil bile yapt??? i? için kafi mazeretler tedarik etmi?tir.

I knew that no one would kill you quicker than a Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

If you do bad things for reasons you've been told are good, does it make you a bad person?

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything

The subliterary fiction she was churning out was many decades away from being in any way respectable. There was a small group that confessed to reading The Lord of the Rings, though you had to justify it through an interest in Old Norse.

She had her reasons. Not that they were ever the same as anybody else's reasons. She was completely ruthless in that way.

He can see the point of venison, of killing to eat, but to have a cut-off head on your wall? What does it prove, except that a deer can't pull a trigger?

Why should I need to explain you

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.