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Tag Name "Justifications" (21)

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Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.
Chris Hayes
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Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
Desmond Tutu
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Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.
Georges Braque
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I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
Julie Kenner
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Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
Khalil Gibran
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Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.
Leo Tolstoy
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Little white lies are part of everyday life. If youre in court being charged with a felony, youre probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat youre going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie its human nature.
Monica Raymund
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The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.
Patrick Ness
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Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.
Thomas Szasz
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As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.
Aaron Swartz
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With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.
Azar Nafisi
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Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the microscope, it no longer offers an explanation of anything important. Where once it used to able, by its total command of a worldview, to prevent the emergence of rivals, it can now only impede and retard-or try to turn back-the measureable advances that we have made.
Christopher Hitchens
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His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.
Faraaz Kazi
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When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.
James Cromwell
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The only justifications for belief have the form justified for me.
Ken Wilber
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If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.
Lennie James
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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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications.
Orrin Woodward
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The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.
Thomas Sowell
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Alan Rickman