Quotes About Justification

Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.

My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but you really need to be a little bit arrogant to think that what you have to say is good enough to justify the expense of hundreds of thousands - now millions of dollars - to make an episode of the TV show.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.

War justifies everything.