Quotes About Justification

The explicit distinction between those who are fit only to study and those who are history's actors not only expresses contempt for intellectuals but also denigrates anyone who requires evidence, rather than power and emotion, as justification for public policy.

It was really true what they said: you don't look for something out of the ordinary unless you have reason to.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.

Julia's fears of coming forward with the violence were based on anticipated as well as actual responses from friends and acquaintances. I also recognized Julia's introverted and moody side, but I knew she wasn't capable of inciting her husband to kick, choke, and lock her in her home like an animal. Besides, considering how she was being treated, it was not surprising that she seemed moody, sensitive, even depressed. More important, nothing any woman could do could justify such behavior.

Prim... Rue... aren't they the very reason I have to try to fight? Because what has been done to them is so wrong, so beyond justification, so evil that there is no choice? Because no one had the right to treat them as they have been treated? Yes. This is the thing to remember when fear threatens to swallow me up.

Creo que Peeta dio con la tecla al comentar que nos destruyéramos entre nosotros para dejar que otra especie más decente ocupara nuestro lugar. Porque algo falla estrepitosamente en unas criaturas capaces de sacrificar a sus hijos para zanjar sus diferencias. Da igual cómo se justifique.

We should kill them all." The words slipped out before he could stop them. "Kill them all? Why?" said Dr. Kay in surprise. "They're unnatural." He tried to twist the comment so it sounded like it came from a bird lover. "Perhaps they'll hurt the other species.

But that kind of thinking . . . you could turn it into an argument for killing anyone at any time. You could justify sending kids into the Hunger Games to prevent the districts from getting out of line,

Benno knew that trick, too: to keep from telling the truth about what you did do, simply explain all the far worse offenses that you didn't commit.

He is trying to justify himself, but he cannot fool Krishna.

I jump at every opportunity I get to do something new but only if I feel that I can justify it.

Sometimes there's a reason for the hype.

It's nice to be right sometimes.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

when you love somebody you justify negative sides of this person but if you are disappointed in your love u lose every chance to do it

A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child.

But never engage in detailed overexplanations of why something is important: one debases a principle by endlessly justifying it.

I can find confirmation for just about anything, the

It means that rational thinking has little, very little, to do with risk avoidance. Much of what rational thinking seems to do is rationalize one's actions by fitting some logic to them.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

which people, in order to avoid inconsistent beliefs, rationalize that, say, the grapes they can't reach got to be sour).

He felt justified to show that "he fared well relative to the industry.

Once your mind is inhabited with a certain view of the world, you will tend to only consider instances proving you to be right. Paradoxically, the more information you have, the more justified you will feel in your views.

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. Less is more and usually more effective.