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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.
Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.
If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.
Institutions are increasingly persuaded that political maneuvering is more important than scientific justification in securing federal funds.
To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
... those who are absolutely certain that the rise in temperatures is due solely to carbon dioxide have no scientific justification. It's pure guesswork.
The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.
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.
You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.
Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.
The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.
In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.
Modern managers have a lot of demands on them, and many feel, with justification, that they do not have the time to commit to watching the junior sides.
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
Absent some international interruption, there's no real justification for oil being more than $90 or $100 a barrel.
All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.
Death is the justification of all the ways of the Christian, the last end of all his sacrifices, the touch of the Great Master which completes the picture.
What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
When we talk about the assertion of basically new government privileges with weak or no justification, we don't even have to look at international law to see the failings in them.
Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.
The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own.
Most national advertising is done without justification. It is merely presumed to pay. A little test might show a way to multiply returns
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
It was the French Revolution that served as the catalyst of this renovation. Its impact was to make the concept of popular sovereignty the new moral justification for the political system of historical capitalism.
Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.
The Cold War provided justification for a larger peacetime military, since we were never really at peace, or so the argument went.
If circumcision has any justification AT ALL, it should be medical only. Parents' religion is the worst of all reasons - pure child abuse.
My whole career has been a struggle for dignity and justification, to prove that I'd made the right decision to be an actor in the first place.
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.
It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.
What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
There is a belief that love has its own justification, that it should be experienced as passionately as possible. The French have a wonderful expression, amour passion, which is the ultimate.
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.
To succeed as a contrarian you must recognize what the crowd believes, have concrete justification for why the majority is wrong, and have the patience and conviction to stick with what is, by definition, an unpopular bet.
The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.
To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.
