Quotes About Justification

Oh yes," said Miss Marple fervently. "I always believe the worst. What is so sad is that one is usually justified in doing so.

I rather think we've all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.

The book that simply demands to be read, for no good reason, is asking us to change our lives by putting aside what we usually think of as good reasons. It's asking us to stop calculating. It's asking us to do something for the plain old delight and interest of it, not because we can justify its place on the mental spreadsheet or accounting ledger (like the one Benjamin Franklin kept) by which we tote up the value of our actions.

To say that a belief is rational is to talk about how it stands in relation to other beliefs

Indeed, one of the functions of the structures of normality is that by making it unnecessary for almost everybody almost all the time to provide justifications for what they are doing or are about to do, they relieve us of what would otherwise be an intolerable burden.

it is not just that moral conclusions can not be justified in the way that they once were ; but the loss of the possibility of such justification signals a correlative change in the meaning of moral idioms

Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.

And, you see, we are living in a world in which all wars are wars of defense.

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?

Wars are not a choice we make for no reason.

In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme.

There can be a reason for a reason already supplied and a reason for the reason for the initial reason.

frequently used to justify a "broader" view of how many will be saved appears in the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church or Lumen Gentium (LG).

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being

First you decide to suffer, then search for reasons that justify your suffering!

We only kill each other to see ourselves as heroes in our fathers' stories.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.

I'm not for censorship without reason.

Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.

Rest assured: Before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we need; before God, the righteousness of Christ is all we have.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.