Quotes About Justification

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system.

Now, a lot of people didn't know him at all - it went through feeder funds, so they wouldn't even have known anything about Bernie Madoff. But everybody finds a justification for their behavior, and obviously, Bernie had a half dozen justifications in his own mind.

The justification for early boarding is based on a massive but common misconception. Because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, the founders of the system believed that emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough. It does the opposite.

When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century, it was solemnly reaffirmed at the Council of Trent against the backdrop of our justification in Christ.

There's no need to make any film. The word 'need' is pretty strong. But if there's a purpose behind making the film, there can be a justification for it.

My whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an actor in the first place.

I justified working so hard by knowing that I was helping to maintain the roof over our heads.

I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

It is okay to put as much money as you want in a story, as long as it is justified.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

I have to justify my job every day.