Top 551 Justification Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification.

There is no possible justification or excuse for marketing dangerous weapons to children as if they were toys.

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.

An interest in the brain requires no justification other than a curiosity to know why we are here, what we are doing here, and where we are going.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.

[Marx's theories] gave me a political and intellectual justification for what I believed in a way that nothing else did.

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

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

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.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the "self-made men", who take the credit.

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

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

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

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

To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit.

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

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

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

Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

What's to be believed? Or does it matter at all? When mass murder's been answered with mass murder, rape with rape, hate with hate, there's no longer much meaning in asking whose ax is bloodier. Evil, on evil, piled on evil. Was there any justification in our 'police action' in space? How can we know? Certainly there was no justification for what they did - or was there? We only know what that thing says, and that thing is a captive. The Asian radio has to say what will least displease it's government; ours has to say what will least displease our fine patriotic opinionated rabble, which is what, coincidentally, the government wants it to say anyhow, so where's the difference?

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

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

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

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

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Though justification costs us nothing but the sacrifice of our pride, it has cost Christ His blood.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

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

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

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.

Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

The fact that our hearts don't all speak in the same way is not cause or justification to discriminate.

Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?