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Letter "J" » justification
«Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends.»
Author: Albert Bandura
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
acceptable, destructive, disengagement, justification, personally, portray, portrayed, portraying, portrays, socially, The Service
«Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't»
«There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.»
Author: Robert M. Hutchins
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
University
| Keywords:
centers, distinguished, justification, universities
«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.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
century, concerned, imparting, imparts, justification, popularization, printing, university
«There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
glad, gladder, gladdest, Having, I was glad, justification, sinned
«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.»
«There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
forgiveness, fruits, justification, obedience, renewal, sanctification
«RECONSIDER, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.»
«I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
atom, atom bomb, atom bombs, bombs, Germans, justification, President Roosevelt, recommended, recommending, recommends, Roosevelt, signed, The Letter
«Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
decent, justification, maintenance, obligation, recognized, The Creation
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