Justification Quotes

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it.

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

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

Perhaps, from an innate desire of justification, sorrow always exaggerates itself. Memory is quite one of Job's friends; and the past is ever ready to throw its added darkness on the present.

In sha Allah, God willing, must be the expression of humility of the active actors and it must never be the justification of the passive observers

I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.

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

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

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

In many churches, the message of justification- how to get right with God- is preached over and over again. But much less is said about sanctification- how to live after you're converted.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time.

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.

There is no justification for having an affair.

Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

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

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.

This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.

Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

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

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision rejected Congress' findings and its method of reasoning, .. Is there any real justification for the court's denigrating Congress' 'method of reasoning'?.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.