Justifications Quotes

#1. The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.

Faraaz Kazi

#4. Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.

Orrin Woodward

#6. When you begin to see others as people,' Ben told me, 'issues related to race, ethnicity, religion, and so on begin to look and feel different. You end up seeing people who have hopes, dreams, fears, and even justifications that resemble your own.

The Arbinger Institute

#7. Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

Alan Rickman

#8. We delude ourselves when we suppose than the main impact of speech lies in the words (as opposed to the voice), just as we delude ourselves when we cite logical reasons, which are actually rationalizations or justifications, for our decisions.

Charles Eisenstein

#9. Although one of the key justifications for the Vietnam war was to prevent the spread of communism, the U.S. defeat was to produce nothing of the kind: apart from the fact that Cambodia and Laos became embroiled, the effects were essentially confined to Vietnam.

Martin Jacques

#10. When we're trying to form and keep habits, we often search - even unconsciously - for loopholes. We look for justifications that will excuse us from keeping this particular habit in this particular situation.

Gretchen Rubin

#11. The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe
because no one else could be such a fool.

Thomas Sowell

#12. A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.

Auliq Ice

#13. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.

Gavin De Becker

#14. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

Kahlil Gibran

#15. When DEATH stares in our faces..
We can just 'stare' back at it!
'All' falls flat in the deathly moments!
No explanations, no reasons, no justifications sound good enough!! Acceptance alone stands out as the truth!

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#16. Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Charles Vest

#17. The legitimacy of coercive acts in a democracy arises from the process by which they are justified and by the degree to which we regard decisions as rational. If the justifications proceed properly, through recognized public institutions, and if they make sense to us, they are legitimate.

Michael Ignatieff

#18. In inventing [General Juan Manuel de] Rosas' self-justification, I have taken the liberty of drawing almost exclusively on the words of Tony Blair, and the various self-justifications he produced to defend his foreign policy adventures with George Bush in the Middle East and the Central Asia.

Harry Thompson

#19. If this incomplete ayaan hirsi wants fame sooo much then she shouldn't use religion as a base to be known. Some people justify their in justifications by selling their souls to the devil, ayaan I'm sure u have taken the time to read the bible. Do tell me it's stance on woman comparing to men ...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#20. As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

Aaron Swartz

#21. If it were profitable to have indentured servants in the modern world, I'm sure that Richard Scaife's think tanks would have no trouble finding justifications, and assorted Christian groups would explain why it's God's will.

Paul Krugman

#22. When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

James Cromwell

#23. The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

Patrick Ness

#24. history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true. We only hear the stories the victor wants told. The remaining stories, the plights, justifications and heroics of the losers are gone with time. Ours is such a history. We are stronger, yet rarely

H.K. Savage

#25. With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Azar Nafisi

#26. We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

Carol Tavris

#27. Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#28. Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#29. It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

Chris Hayes

#30. She felt justified in hurting him, because he had hurt her...but now all her justifications fell away like dead butterflies...

Lauren Myracle

#31. If you put forward arguments and justifications when you are annoyed, you give out more information to your opponent

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#32. Land, domination, pre-emptive attacks - all just excuses, mundane justifications that do nothing but disguise the simple distinction. They are not us. We are not them.

Steven Erikson

#33. Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.

Bryant McGill

#34. Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

Thomas Szasz

#35. Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.

Greg Saunier

#36. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#37. The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

Ken Wilber

#38. I wish I could say I was a victim but I willingly played into the devil's hands. My reasons weren't always right and my justifications weren't just, but my weaknesses were common.

Jimmy Gleacher

#39. Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

Raheel Farooq

#40. If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#41. I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Julie Kenner

#42. With all the justifications I have had in place, telling the truth under certain circumstances was in my universe no different than telling a lie or withholding.

Mike Rinder

#43. The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

E.P. Thompson

#44. 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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#45. If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

Lennie James

#46. Abusiveness can be thought of as a recipe that involves a consistent set of ingredients: control, entitlement, disrespect, excuses, and justifications (including victim blaming) - elements that are always present, often accompanied by physical intimidation or violence.

Lundy Bancroft

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

George Henry Lewes

#48. It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities," Leto said. "This ... rhetorical despotism, Lord?" "Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

Frank Herbert

#49. Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

Cristiane Serruya

#50. Illusions ... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

Georges Braque

#51. They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.

Frank Herbert

#52. Winners don't believe in justifications

Mohammed Sekouty

#53. Widespread justification formulate the most significant obstacles on the way to achieving a dream

Sunday Adelaja

#54. A lie is my attempt to tamper with the truth so that I need not face the truth. Yet as shrewd as I think myself to be, I would be wise to understand that God designed truth as ultimately tamper-proof.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#55. You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else's reality.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

Daniel M. Gilbert