False Justification Quotes

#1. Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

Idries Shah

#2. Epistemologists have come to a loose description of knowledge as justified true belief which is not based off false assumptions, but even this is fallacious as the prerequisite knowledge required for justification makes this a circular definition.

Chris Matakas

#3. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator

Frank Delaney

#4. I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.

Jenny Holzer

#5. Not every lake dreams to be an ocean. Blessed are the ones who are happy with whom they are.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry

Allen Ginsberg

#7. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

William Blake

#8. Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Criss Jami

#9. Larsta love oath is binding. They knew no form of divorce in their culture.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. When we are bone-dry, all we need is a heavy rain!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Peter Hook

#12. Comfort is the enemy of creativity.

T.D. Jakes

#13. They'd stolen his life.
And rebirthed him as a monster.

Lisa Carlisle

#14. School was very easy, it turned out, if you just disconnected your heart.

Anne Ursu

#15. No other chancellor in the long history of the office has felt the need to pass a law in order to convince people he has the political will to implement his own Budget.

George Osborne

#16. Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

John Ruskin

#17. The false gospel of self-justification is a great enemy of the Christian faith because so many have been misled to believe that it is Christianity.

Gloria Furman

#18. Through my memory of the Passion, God can "purify" my memory of wrongs suffered because my identity stems neither from the wrongdoing done to me, which would require the perpetual accusation of my wrongdoer, nor from my own (false) innocence, which would lead me to (illegitimate) self-justification.

Miroslav Volf