Quotes About Justification

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

The good stupid is the brave kind. When there's a real reason behind. Bad stupid is everything else.

Truth be told, are you ready to defend yourself?

Sometimes you do the wrong thing for the right reason.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is shrugged off because an abstract cause is said to be greater than any human consequences. Once

There is no such thing as undesirable work," he continued. "There are only people who see certain kinds of work as undesirable. People who use every excuse in the world to justify why they have to do work they hate to do. People who look upon their work as a punishment for who they are and where they stand in the world, rather than as an opportunity to see themselves as they really are.

Usted me considera estúpido, ¿verdad? Tal vez tenga razón. Pero me parece que de alguna manera hay que ser estúpido si se quiere hacer algo. Y a mi, princesa, me interesa más hacer algo que justificarme por ello.

The meritocratic ideal is not a remedy for inequality; it is a justification of inequality.

The larger the number of people involved, the easier it was for them to delude themselves that what they were doing must be smart.

Everyone has a story they tell themselves about themselves. Even if they don't explicitly acknowledge it, their minds are at work retelling or editing or updating a narrative that explains or excuses why they have spent their time on earth as they have.

The great advantage of being a reasonable creature is that you can find a reason for whatever you want to do

If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

Have the colored people done anything to justify the prejudice against them that does exist in the hearts of so many white persons and, generally, of one great political party in this country? Have they done anything to justify it? No, sir.

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.