Justification Quotes

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Some people are able to use Bible as a means of opposing injustice, whereas others are able to find justification.

When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

Action that is clearly right needs no 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.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.

Popularity has become its own justification.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

The line between faith and fanaticism is a constantly shifting one,” Dr. Poblocki said. “When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

I am not your justification for existence.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

People who don't pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.

If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

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

If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell.

Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.