Justification famous quotes

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Action #Justification #Humans

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
-- Ashley Montagu

#Mutilation #Justification #Ritual

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
-- Ashly Lorenzana

#Action #Life Is #Justification

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.
-- Ayn Rand

#Destruction #Sanctions #Justification

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
-- Bernard Berenson

#Art #Helping #Justification

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
-- Calvin Coolidge

#Justification #Concern #Interference

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns
-- Charles Simeon

#Christianity #Justification #Turns

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
-- Dario Fo

#War #Games #Justification

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
-- E. P. Thompson

#Firsts #Justification #Missiles

Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.
-- Elliot Aronson

#Self Esteem #Lows #Justification

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
-- George Henry Lewes

#Silence #Insincerity #Justification

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.
-- Greg Koukl

#Abortion #Adequate #Justification

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.
-- Hideki Yukawa

#Reality #Complicated #Justification

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.
-- Jinzaburo Takagi

#Plutonium #Program #Justification

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

#Wish #Should #Justification

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
-- Julie Kenner

#Justification #Avoiding #Housework

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?
-- Laura Marling

#Needs #Justification

The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
-- Martin Luther

#Joy #Forfeit #Justification

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
-- Miguel Syjuco

#These Days #Kill Me #Justification

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.
-- Oskar Schindler

#Power #Justification

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.
-- Paul F. M. Zahl

#Easter #Christ #Justification

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
-- Richard Wall

#Eye #Sociology #Justification

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
-- Robert M. Hutchins

#School #Criticism #Justification

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
-- Ruth Benedict

#Justification

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
-- Ruth Hurmence Green

#Calling #Justification

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.
-- Shai Linne

#Keys #Racism #Justification

There is no justification for having an affair.
-- Shanola Hampton

#Affair #Justification

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.
-- Storm Jameson

#Vanity #Self #Justification

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't
-- Thomas Keneally

#Justification

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.
-- Tullian Tchividjian

#Heart #Justification #Sanctification

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
-- Wellington Mara

#Self #Servant #Justification

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
-- William Carey

#Grace #Salvation #Justification

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
-- Ernest Sosa

#Understanding #Latter #Justification

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also accompanied by a history of forced assimilation whether it was in residential schools, whether it was in dismantling traditional tribal governance structures. And the justifications for that is that you're not as good as us. Our systems are better. Our modes of education. Our ways of owning land, our ways of working have been continually cited to Indians as the reason for these government policies.
-- Robert A. Williams, Jr.

#School #Reason #Justification

It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.
-- Adolph Saphir

#Believe #Justified #Justification

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.
-- Bernard Ramm

#Interpretation #Justification #Truest

The only justification of rebellion is success.
-- Thomas Reed

#Rebellion #Justification