Quotes About Rationalize

#1. The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.

Thomas Sowell

#2. How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro.

Thomas Sowell

#3. I began to rationalize marrying Will[iam Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse.' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet

Maureen O'Hara

#4. All sensible politicians favor growth, just as we all favor sound public finances. Both can be achieved if we rationalize spending, invest available resources wisely, and clamp down on tax evasion.

Victor Ponta

#5. The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Mary Mattingly

#6. It is easy to rationalize that we don't have time to exercise. Not so. Ultimately, our improved health through exercise will provide us more time and energy to accomplish other tasks. We can usually do about whatever we want to-if we want to badly enough.

Joe J. Christensen

#7. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

John Piper

#8. Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.

Viktor Schauberger

#9. The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

Maile Meloy

#10. Your brand image is primarily an emotional construct. Emotion is probably always more powerful in swaying people than reason, but people like to be able to rationalize their choices.

Drayton Bird

#11. Anyone who can rationalize love through intellect, has no idea what love is, for it is an emotion, and cannot be rationalized. For love is crazy.

L.D. Davis

#12. We sometimes look among our numbers to find one to whom we can point who agrees with us, so we can have company to justify our apostasy. We rationalize by saying that someday the Church doctrine will catch up with our way of thinking. Truth is not established by Gallup polls.

Ezra Taft Benson

#13. As an atheist you have to rationalize things ... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared
but that's okay!

Billy Joel

#14. [I'm] an extremely private dude and all this is happening so damn quick. I really haven't had any time to rationalize it. But it's nothing that I'm going to let freak me out or take control of me or my thoughts or my real life.

Heath Ledger

#15. People are likely to act based on their emotions and then backward-rationalize. Because women have highly developed emotional circuits, they are especially susceptible to this.

Mystery

#16. Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

Mindy Kaling

#17. The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

Robert Fisk

#18. Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way.

Bryan Fuller

#19. I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it's easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

Holly Black

#20. The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. Scared people don't really mean what they say, they're just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what's happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it's out of their control.

Chris Dietzel

#22. rationalize that as something else

Peter F. Hamilton

#23. Our gods, if we choose to believe in them, must be forced to live up to ethics that far surpass our own human standards. If they fall short of the ethical conditions we place upon ourselves, what use are they to us - except to rationalize our own failures?

Stifyn Emrys

#24. Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#25. Allowing yourself to follow the crevices of your heart lines is a messy process and not easy to characterize or rationalize into neat and tidy lists and boxes.

Maureen Chiquet

#26. It's amazing how much you can rationalize when you're on drugs. I could actually say to myself, Look, I'm only doing blow Wednesday through Saturday.

Marc Maron

#27. People, even crazy, evil people, tended to believe they have a good reason for doing what they do. Though some consider religion the opiate of the masses, others use it to further their obsessions, or rationalize their crimes.

J.A. Konrath

#28. When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

Vince Lombardi

#29. Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

Harlan Coben

#30. The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position.

Allen MacDiarmid

#31. Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?

Mark Twain

#32. You can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in ...

John Geddes

#33. Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

James Cook

#34. Rationalize all you like, I don't care. All that matters is that your body reacts to mine, which means I won't have to try too hard to get you naked.

Jessie Donovan

#35. Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Joe Wright

#36. Human beings, when they encounter that which can't be understood, either run away from it, run towards it blindly, or just rationalize it out of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#37. At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Lauren Oliver

#38. Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Robert Anton Wilson

#40. You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?"
"It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize."
"Must be a human thing."
"Exactly.

Christopher Moore

#41. Leave it to a kid to sum up the state of my career so accurately in two words. And leave it to an adult to rationalize it in three: "It's a living.

A.G. Riddle

#42. I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.

Jane Greer

#43. Costs rationalize decisions.

Kirk Mahoney

#44. Kids need quantity time: the myth that a small amount of focused attention is just as good simply because it's labeled quality is merely a means to rationalize being away.

Diane Medved

#45. You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.

Frederick Lenz

#46. It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Henry Rollins

#47. Violence against judges and threats of violence against Judges is on the rise and it is no laughing matter. When leaders attempt to rationalize this violence, it only makes the problem worse.

John Conyers

#48. And she deserved it, didn't she? She had told herself, desperately trying to rationalize the hurt she was about to cause. She was allowed another chance? Why should she have to give up on romantic love at the age of thirty-five?

Jojo Moyes

#49. We are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

Francis Chan

#50. I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

Haskell Wexler

#51. The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#52. It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

Warren Buffett

#53. We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.

Simon Sinek

#54. The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

Robert A. Heinlein

#55. Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

Walter Darby Bannard

#56. The more you rationalize, the more you move farther away from your authentic self.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

Autre Ne Veut

#58. If the staff does not begin with a discussion on values and instead begins by gathering and analyzing data, the process becomes head-driven. This will lead to a tendency to rationalize and assign blame:

Linda Dier

#59. It's very easy to rationalize what you're doing when you don't know the faces and the names of the people you might hurt. It's very easy to choose yourself over someone else when it's an abstract.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#60. They were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

Douglas Adams

#61. What Satan means to me-Satan is a stabilizing force in my life. It gives me a reason to be; it gives me-an excuse to rationalize. There is a part of me that believes he really does exist. I have my doubts, but we all do, about many things.

Richard Ramirez

#62. You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

Brian Grazer

#63. But is the word used before you rationalize why the situation is not your fault nor responsibility.

Orrin Woodward

#64. Stop trying to rationalize this, man. There is no scenario here that ends with you between this woman's thighs.

Kate Meader

#65. They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

Frederick Lenz

#66. I can't rationalize the brilliance and knowledge that you have about the intricacies of the market with the crazy bullshit I see you do each night.

Jon Stewart

#67. I tell myself: This time could be different. I rationalize: It's not like the past can be changed. I fear: I lost everything before. And yet... I hope.

Heather Lyons

#68. The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

John Carroll

#69. I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

Thomas Reid

#70. Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.

Shannon Celebi

#71. I could rationalize anything, even my own murder. It was a twisted sort of love, but it was the only kind I knew. People

Skye Warren

#72. Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!

James MacDonald

#73. This is the basis for the false assumption that price or features matter more than they do. Those things matter, they provide us the tangible things we can point to to rationalize our decision-making, but they don't set the course and they don't inspire behavior.

Simon Sinek

#74. Feelings of bitterness and dissatisfaction feed upon themselves and give place to thoughts and acts of unkindness, criticism, and eventually even hatred. Criticism is often motivated by a desire to rationalize one's own shortcomings and to justify termination of sacred marriage covenants.

Richard G. Scott

#75. I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive.

Peter Weir

#76. When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

Simon Sinek

#77. Conformist intellectuals, the ones who support official aims and ignore or rationalize official crimes, are honored and privileged in their own societies, while the value-oriented are punished in one way or another. The

Noam Chomsky

#78. And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?

Orson Scott Card

#79. I rationalize this by telling myself that while the work might be ignoble, it's not necessarily evil. We're not Hitler - we're just annoying people.

Dan Lyons

#80. The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Stephen Covey

#81. We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#82. No man who could rationalize the death of a child could truly be called a man at all,

Tom Clancy

#83. The moment we rationalize chemistry, we risk losing it forever.

Jennifer Probst

#84. Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything ... I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable. The rationalizations escalate ... It's only marijuana. He gets high only on weekends. At least he's not using hard drugs ...

David Sheff

#85. The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity.

Taner Akcam

#86. I once heard someone say that when we rationalize, we tell "rational lies.

Perry Noble

#87. By and large, the world wants to move away from the nuclear era. The question is how fast and how far. In a world of sovereign nation-states, I can't rationalize any number above zero. If it's more than zero, you have to acknowledge every nation has the right to have them.

George Lee Butler

#88. If you are not the victim, don't examine it entirely from your point of view because when YOU'RE not the victim, it becomes pretty easy to rationalize and excuse cruelty, injustice, inequality, slavery, and even murder. But when you're the victim, things look a lot differently from that angle.

Gary Yourofsky

#89. Evil is moral at it heart. The selection of vice over virtue; you can pretend not to know, you can rationalize, but you know it in your conscience.

Gregory Maguire

#90. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

Bryan Fuller

#91. Everyone's past, I try to rationalize, is nothing more than the collection of memories they choose to remember.

Andrew Davidson

#92. Name your nation-state, or tribe or party - you have to rationalize what you're doing. You have to go to sleep at night. Does Dick Cheney sleep at night? Does he sleep like a baby?

Martin Donovan

#93. Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.

Nick Hanauer

#94. Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dali

#95. Under pressure, even the smartest people will start to rationalize that frogs really can turn into princes.

Pierre Mornell

#96. I am all of my characters, but none of them in particular. I'm an expat in San Miguel de Allende, the community I write about.
My characters are never black and white--I'm interested in shades of gray and the way people rationalize the bad acts they commit.

John Scherber

#97. The things you see in Army barracks sometimes defies logic. After a while, you give up trying to rationalize and understand such things ... you just accept them as your new reality.

Scott Burkett

#98. A recurring theme in his autobiography, as well as in his tales and almanacs, was his amusement at man's ability to rationalize what was convenient. At

Walter Isaacson

#99. You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

David Gemmell

#100. At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.

Wynn Bullock