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.

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

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.

Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.

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

The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

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

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

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

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

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings.

Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

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

I am not your justification for existence.

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.