Top 1200 Self Justification Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Do you know Afghan children wear shoes when they sleep, so they can run easily if a bomb falls during the night? Iraq has been similarly pushed against the wall. What proof did the West ultimately have, what justification for raining bombs on them?

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Self-ruled Taiwan cannot be expected to accept such an affront to the legitimacy of its government and the self-determination of the Taiwanese people.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

The USA FREEDOM Act ends the NSA's unfettered data collection program once and for all, while at the same time preserving the government's ability to obtain information to track down terrorists when it has sufficient justification and support for doing so.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

The self cannot be self without other selves.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.

What force is yanking at our sleeves? This process of self-revision and self-correction is so common we don't even notice. But it's a miracle.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

Self Government won't work without self discipline.

Sometimes, my self-doubt became self-limiting.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

We shouldn't just think about mammograms and self-exams and self-care once a year. It should be an ongoing thing.

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments. It is the pseudo-philosophy of those who can think of nothing else than to dissipate the capital accumulated by previous generations.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.

I hated prog rock; to me, it was the ultimate expression of a bloated sense of self-importance and mindless self-indulgence.

I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

The multiplication of individual sects should not fool us: the important point is that the whole of America is preoccupied with the sect as a moral institution, with its immediate demand for beatification, its material efficacity, its compulsion for justification, and doubtless also with its madness and frenzy.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

The mastery of the true self, and the refusal to permit others to dominate us, is the ultimate in living and self-expression in athletics.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.

In the self-appraisal of efficacy, there are many sources of information that must be processed and weighed through self-referent thought

I want women to be self-dependent and self-content.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

We can't have self-government without the self-confidence that is at the root of it.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

[Iggi Pop] is very self-taught, self-educated, but, man, that guy knows about so many things.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

In the World of Reality there is no self, There is no other-than-self.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

There is no other industry that is more self-congratulatory and self-delusional than journalism. Well, maybe with the exception of Hollywood.

Self knowledge is the stepping stop to self mastery.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

The difference between self-confidence and conceit is as simple as love and fear. Jesus was self-confident ... Hitler was afraid.

This is not the case. There is nothing that is not the Self. The Self does not have to be realized.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.