Quotes for All
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it’s only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It’s like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces … Read more
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition – the divine right of kings. At issue was the fundamental question of whether men’s rights were God-given or whether these rights were to be dispensed by governments to their subjects. This document proclaimed that all … Read more
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. Ernest Sosa
To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification. Emanuel Lasker
Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it’s also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself. Elliot Aronson
But why must everything have a practical application? I’d been such a diligent soldier for years – working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need … Read more
it is not men that most women worry about when they rise to the defense of the status quo. Their apparent endorsement of male supremacy is, rather, a pathetic striving for self-respect, self-justification, and self-pardon. After fifteen hundred years of subjection to men, Western woman finds it almost unbearable to face the fact that she … Read more
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles … Read more
Action that is clearly right needs no justification. Elisabeth Elliot
Criticism … makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done. Eleanor Roosevelt