Quotes About Justification

So he said it now, a true sentence for a false reason.

If an author does not give reasons for his propositions, they can only be treated as expressions of personal opinion on his part.

His propositions are nothing but expressions of personal opinion unless they are supported by reasons.

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices and that lets people justify making evil choices. Because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall inside their own heads. And yes, fine. But I think that after a certain number of evil choices, it's reasonable shorthand to decide that someone's an evil person who oughtn't have the chance to make any more choices. And the more power someone has, the less slack they ought to be given.

I imagine it's always easier to do something monstrous if you can convince yourself you aren't going to, up to the last minute, until you do.

She says it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall, inside their own heads.

it's too easy to call people evil instead of their choices, and that lets people justify making evil choices, because they convince themselves that it's okay because they're still good people overall, inside their own heads.

There is no legitimate historical or biological justification for the beauty myth; what it is doing to women today is a result of nothing more exalted than the need of today's power structure, economy, and culture to mount a counteroffensive against women.

Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit.

Truth is never perfect, never squares with all expectations. Truth always poses doubts and questions. Only lies are one hundred percent believable, because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear.

Truth is never perfect, never squares with all expectations. Truth always poses doubts and questions. Only lies are one hundred percent believable, because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear.

La verad nunca es perfecta y nunca cuada con todas las expectativas. La verdad siempre plantea dudad y preguntas. Solo la mentira es creíble al cien por cien, porque no tiene que justificar la realidad sino sencillamente decirnos lo que queremos oír.

Az igazmondást kevés dolog indokolja, a hazugságnak viszont végtelen sok oka lehet.

La verdad nunca es perfecta y nunca cuadra con todas las expectativas. La verdad siempre plantea dudas y preguntas. Solo la mentira es creíble al cien por cien, porque no tiene que justificar la realidad sino sencillamente decirnos lo que queremos oír

Only lies are one hundred percent believable because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.

it can be masked with a veneer of legality, it can be cloaked with plausible deniability. It is always possible to justify each incremental step.

Spears said that pride many times exonerates a greater stupidity than a blank brain.

I hate goodbyes, but hating them is never a justification to stay.

It is progress." Kurt's continuing justifications filled the silence. "To eliminate weakness. To promote strength. For the greater good. Ultimately, it would have led to the improvement of the whole human race. One day the world will understand the wisdom of such actions.

I don't like memoirs. I think they're self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.