(191 quotes found)
“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”
Mark Twain
“Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't”
Oskar Shindler
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
C.S. Lewis
“There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it”
Henry Louis Mencken
“...When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.”
Ayn Rand
“There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.”
Martin Luther
“ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.”
Ambrose Bierce
“It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power”
Robert Mugabe
“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.”
Edward de Bono
“RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.”
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