Quotes About Justification

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have to ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen. - William Churchill

Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged them both, and how he cannot justify his actions except that, well, it was life.

Don't Burn the Food (SDL) In a sample of thirteen African countries between 1999 and 2004, 52 percent of women surveyed say they think that wife-beating is justified if she neglects the children; around 45 percent think it's justified if she goes out without telling the husband or argues with him; 36 percent if she refuses sex, and 30 percent if she burns the food. And this is what the women think. We live in a strange world.

cuando una mujer no desea tener un hijo, generalmente cuenta con buenas razones para ello.

51 percent of Indian men said that wife-beating is justified under certain circumstances; more surprisingly, 54 percent of women agreed—

Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 13:39

Institutionalized torture in Christendom was not just an unthinking habit; it had a moral rationale. If you really believe that failing to accept Jesus as one's savior is a ticket to fiery damnation, then torturing a person until he acknowledges this truth is doing him the biggest favor of his life: better a few hours now than an eternity later.

The Perpetrator's Narrative: The story begins with the harmful act. At the time I had good reasons for doing it. Perhaps I was responding to an immediate provocation. Or I was just reacting to the situation in a way that any reasonable person would. I had a perfect right to do what I did, and it's unfair to blame me for it. The harm was minor, and easily repaired, and I apologized. It's time to get over it, put it behind us, let bygones be bygones. The

To make decisions "rationally," by some set of rules, means to base the decisions on some grounds of truth:

Foremost is reason. Reason is nonnegotiable. As soon as you show up to discuss the question of what we should live for (or any other question), as long as you insist that your answers, whatever they are, are reasonable or justified or true and that therefore other people ought to believe them too, then you have committed yourself to reason, and to holding your beliefs accountable to objective standards.

How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.

To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause? That is hell. And once in hell it is very easy to curse being itself and no wonder. But it's not justifiable and that's why the king of the damned is a poor judge of being.

The fact of life's tragedy and the suffering that is part of it has been used to justify the pursuit of immediate selfish gratification for a very long time.

cualquier jerarquía engendra ganadores y perdedores. Los ganadores, obviamente, tienen más probabilidades de justificar la jerarquía y los perdedores, de criticarla.

In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance.

Zaklju?ak toga procesa? ''Neka su djela u sebi toliko užasna da se protive samoj naravi ljudskoga Bi?a''. Ta je istina temeljna, vrijedi za sve kulture, za svako vrijeme i prostor. ''Postoje zla djela koja se ni?im ne mogu opravdati. Dehumanizirati ljudsko bi?e, uniziti muškarca ili ženu do razine parazita, mu?iti ih i zaklati ne razmišljaju?i o njihovoj nevinosti ili krivnji, nanošenje boli pretvoriti u umije?e - pogrješno je.

Nietzsche writes, "The Christians have never practiced the actions Jesus prescribed them; and the impudent garrulous talk about the 'justification by faith' and its supreme and sole significance is only the consequence of the Church's lack of courage and will to profess the works Jesus demanded."144 Nietzsche was, indeed, a critic without parallel.

However, people are often willing to produce a lot of collateral damage if they can retain their theory.

You decide that you will start treating Old Testament God, with all His terrible and oft-arbitrary-seeming power, as if He could also be New Testament God (even though you understand the many ways in which that is absurd). In other words, you decide to act as if existence might be justified by its goodness—if only you behaved properly. And it is that decision, that declaration of existential faith, that allows you to overcome nihilism, and resentment, and arrogance.

We must bear a load, to justify our miserable existence.

people don't buy on logic; they buy on emotion, and then justify their decision with logic.

A mathematician is always asking, "What assumptions are you making? And are they justified?

Life can be meaningful enough to justify its suffering

Pero si la historia de México que se enseña es aburrida no es por culpa de los acontecimientos, que son variados y muy interesantes, sino porque a los que la confeccionaron no les interesaba tanto presentar el pasado, como justificar el presente.