Justification Quotes - Page 2

• To seek a justification for a decision already made.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Choices, Decision, Made

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Believe, Ideas, Intellectual

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• Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

  Oskar Schindler

  Power

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• Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Opportunity, Views, Giving

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1945-1948): The Observer Is the Abserved”, Krishnamurti Foundation of Amer

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• You need to face, you need to confront, and really properly look at what's happening, and not try and explain it away or give it justifications or anything, because at this juncture, we still, by our finger nails, have the chance to make a difference, and turn this around. And to not take part and to just watch…….., but if you don't push back, if you don't face it and confront it for what it is, it'll just takeover, and then no one will be free.

  Vivian Kubrick

  Differences, Giving, Making A Difference

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• Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

  William J. Seymour

  Children, Simultaneous, Child Of God

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• The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Honesty, Integrity, Philosophy

  "Stop the Madness". "The Globe and Mail" Newspaper, July 6, 2002.

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• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Age, Poverty, Curse

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Nature, Elements, Architecture

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Religion, Liberty, Morality

  "A little book in C major".

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• Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

  Helen Rowland

  Jest, Wit, Cynic

  Irvin S. Cobb, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Helen Rowland, Richard Saunders (2017). “We Should All Be So Feminine: We Should All Be a Feminist: We Should All Be Feminists”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Analysis, Problem

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Rights, Government, Doe

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• If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

  Arthur Miller

  Hypnosis, Shoes, Pairs

  Marxism Today, January 1988.

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• I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

  Don Young

  Thinking, Government, Land

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• The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Power, Use, Force

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.87, David R. Godine Publisher

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Thinking, Criticism

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• People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Animal, Vegetarianism, Practice

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• Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the agreed-upon text. This last-minute change would have given the president broad authority to exercise expansive powers not just overseas-where we all understood he wanted authority to act-but right here in the United States, potentially against American citizens. I could see no justification for Congress to accede to this extraordinary request for additional authority. I refused.

  Tom Daschle

  Exercise, President, United States

  "Bush's NSA Hubris" by Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order to hide one's motives, not just from others, but primarily from oneself. The price of rationalizing is the hampering, the distortion, and, ultimately, the destruction of one's cognitive faculty. Rationalization is a process not of perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Order, Giving

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.25, Penguin

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• Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Evil, Indifference, Silent

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• By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mean, Winning, Narrative

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.95, Random House

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• Of course I wasn't abused. If I were; things would be so simple. I'd have a reason to for being in a shrinks office. I'd have a justification and something to work on. The world wasn't going to give me something that tidy.

  Ned Vizzini

  Simple, Giving, Office

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• When you love someone, that love has no limit, no measure, because you know in your deepest being that when that love demands sacrifice, you will give it without question. You will not look for reasons, for justification - the act of giving, of sacrificing, is a natural compulsion, like breathing, and it will, in the end, surprise you because you did it without second thoughts.

  F. Sionil José

  Sacrifice, Breathing, Giving

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• 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?

  Libba Bray

  Doe, Drs, Lines

  Libba Bray (2012). “The Diviners: Number 1 in series”, p.126, Hachette UK

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