Quotes About Justification

History is supposed to be an accurate, and full, account of what actually happened. Politics is never about what actually happened. Politics is always one's point of view about what happened. History reveals, politics justifies. History uncovers; tells all. Politics covers; tells only one side. Politicians hate history truly written. And history, truly written, speaks not so well of politicians, either.

You think that this talk is tough? I tell you this: You have bastardized the Word of God in order to justify your fears and rationalize your insane treatment of each other. You will make God say whatever you need God to say in order to continue limiting each other, hurting each other, and killing each other in My name.

Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.

I'm glad I have a concrete thing to blame this on, something everyone can point a finger at.

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

One who begins to live by rapine will always find some reason for taking the goods of others

pretexts for taking away the property are never wanting; for he who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others; but

He who has once begun to live by robbery will always find pretexts for seizing what belongs to others.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

He always apologized, and sometimes he would even cry because of the bruises he'd made on her arms or legs or her back. He would say that he hated what he'd done, but in the next breath tell her she'd deserved it. That if she'd been more careful, it wouldn't have happened. That if she'd been paying attention or hadn't been so stupid, he wouldn't have lost his temper.

I think the parts that I played sort of broke the mould in terms of - you know, I played grey characters, the bad girl with a good heart, there was a good reason for her to be bad.

I say what I say because I believe it from the bottom of my soul and I can back it up.

When I became the chair of the British Film Institute, I didn't understand how much of my time would be taken up with trying to make a case for the British Film Institute: what it's for, why it exists, why it needs its money.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

I'll be damned if I apologize for the choices I've made. They were hard decisions, but I had good reasons for making them.

The cell wanted to overthrow the government and to do that, they were hurting their own people. Draden had never seen the logic in that, how could they convince themselves that what they were doing was justified because they believed in the endgame.

It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. This is even more true when the "evidence" eventually offered is so shoddy and self-interested.

Divine permission, given to people who think they have god on their side, enables actions that a morally normal unbeliever would not contemplate.

If it should seem odd that an action should be deliberately performed in order that a foretelling be vindicated, that is because it is odd.

No one ever hates without a cause...." Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

What's morality?" "It's the difference between what is right and what you can rationalize.

entiendo que te sientas obligado a defender tus pecados favoritos

You don't have to explain why a character pulled the kid from the freezing river, but there better be a pretty good reason why he held that kid under.