Quotes of: Justification Keyword

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

Dario Fo

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

Umberto Eco

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

Joaquin Phoenix

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Beth Simone Noveck

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

Guillaume Apollinaire

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

William Vickrey

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

Kevin DeYoung

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

Christopher Bigsby

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

Tullian Tchividjian

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

I have just gained a deeper and deeper respect for acting and the whole art of it because you're really trying to live a life and to do the best justification for it.

Billy Magnussen

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

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

Hitch-22: A Memoir

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

Ilustrado

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

Robert M. Hutchins

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.

Richard Wall

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Noam Chomsky

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

Charles Vest

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Malcolm Wallop

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

Andrew Cohen