#justification

Wisdom consists of knowing how to distinguish the nature of trouble, and in choosing the lesser evil. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#power #wisdom-in-war #nature

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

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

#also #always #been #continuing #done

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#justification #wrong #experience

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

#difference #glorification #indulge #justification #life

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

— Joseph Conrad

#art #aspires #carry #condition #every

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

— Dario Fo

#games #involved #justification #mode #nevertheless

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking. ↗

— Amy Winehouse

#age #drinking #five #going #i

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#against #appeals #conduct #deaf #destructive

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

#did #does #fear #government #grant