Justification Quotes

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

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

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.

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

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

The heart of sanctification is the life which feeds on justification.

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

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

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

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

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

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.

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

Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

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

It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

There is no justification for having an affair.

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

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.

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

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

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

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

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

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

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

It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.

Popularity has become its own justification.

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

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.

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

It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.

The only justification of rebellion is success.

If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.

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

Congress passed the 1887 General Allotment Act. And that act ended up dispossessing tribes of 90 million acres. That history of dispossession was also accompanied by a history of forced assimilation whether it was in residential schools, whether it was in dismantling traditional tribal governance structures. And the justifications for that is that you're not as good as us. Our systems are better. Our modes of education. Our ways of owning land, our ways of working have been continually cited to Indians as the reason for these government policies.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.