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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
People can rationalize in funny ways to hold onto their dreams and needs.
There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.
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.
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.
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.
The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.
Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.
Conservatives should single-mindedly privilege marriage as the solution to poverty and the best path for raising successful children, and not rationalize the real of destructive cultural change.
Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.
I rationalize shop. I buy a dress because I need change for gum.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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.
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.
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.
VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.
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.
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.
A part of my job, when I'm playing a character and approaching a role, is to rationalize and to not judge whatsoever.
I began to rationalize marrying Will [William 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.)
As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off."
Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.
People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.
part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.
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?
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.
When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
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.
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.
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.
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!
Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.
I love making movies, but I was ready to rationalize being only a mother if my career never got back on track.
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
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.
...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
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.
I think that emotional marks are made early on. Even if you can rationalize them as you grow up, they still leave that dank sadness you can never truly shake.
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.
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?
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?
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.
I think in a world where everyone wants to categorize and compartmentalize and rationalize, it's OK to be different.
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
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.