(191 quotes found)
“Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.”
Albert Bandura
“If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.”
Arthur Miller
“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.”
Robert M. Hutchins
“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.”
Mario Vargas Llosa
“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
“On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.”
Albert Einstein
“No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain.”
G. K. Chesterton
“The film describes him as this convicted killer, but doesn't give any explanation or justification for it,”
Vin Diesel
“People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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