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Quotes About Justification

Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign for vilification.
~ Farley Mowat
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing the most vicious or revolting qualities to those they would destroy; and the less reason there is for the slaughter, the greater the campaign of vilification.
~ Farley Mowat
She was a bitch. They're all bitches. I'm telling you, they asked me to do it. They begged me.
~ Faye Kellerman
The devil made me do it!
~ Flip Wilson
By your words ye are justified and by your words ye are condemned.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
2. As soon as you become too interested in worldly pleasure and ease, your conscience objects. You are your own worst enemy when you act against your conscience. The wrong which you do becomes worse when you try to excuse yourself or justify your actions. 3.
~ Fr. Anthony J. Paone
La grande question dans la vie, c'est la douleur que l'on cause, et la métaphysique la plus ingénieuse ne justifie pas l'homme qui a déchiré le coeur qui l'aimait. »
~ Frédéric Beigbeder
Now I've gotten saved. Now whatever I do can't unsave me. Even if I killed somebody, I can't ever be unsaved now.
~ Billy Graham
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
~ Billy Sunday
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
~ Blaise Pascal
Words like redemption, justification, glorification, and propitiation may sound theological, but they are not just for theologians. If they are found in the word of God, they are for all believers to know and understand to bring spiritual growth.
~ Bob Yandian
Not only have past processes made us what we are-"modern" or "postmodern" selves, rather than "medieval" or "early modern" selves-but by explaining them we both account for and implicitly justify present realities.
~ Brad S. Gregory
If you can't justify the rationale of an order to yourself, don't make your subordinates do it. Re-evaluate your reasons and find another method.
~ Harold G. Moore
It will hurt if you justify your choices based on material rewards.
~ Harold J. Sala
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
~ Harper Lee
I said I would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
~ Harper Lee
one must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.
~ Harper Lee
uno debe mentir en ciertas circunstancias, en particular cuando no puede modificar las circunstancias. —Hemos
~ Harper Lee
The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves
~ Haruki Murakami
It made me sick to my stomach thinking about why I'd been slapped. Slapping is never a good thing, but there should at least be some sort of legitimate reason behind it, like an exclamation mark needs to follow an exclamatory sentence. I remembered the teacher who'd made fun of me for doing that. You can't just put an exclamatory sentence anywhere!
~ Heather O'Neill
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
~ William Kingdon Clifford
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
~ Alex Gibney
Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
~ James Carville
I think the best villains are ones that you can look at and say, 'Yeah, he's obviously going about this the wrong way or going too far or whatever, but I can see where he's coming from.' Magneto's a great example of that, and the reason he and Charles Xavier can have such great conversations is that they can both make some good points.
~ Ryan North