68 Self Justification Quotes
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Famous Self Justification Quotes
Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. — Karen Horney
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — Albert Camus
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them. — Oscar Wilde
He who does evil, is never short of an excuse. — Italian Proverbs
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky
Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions. — Egyptian Proverbs
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. — Thomas Szasz
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself. — John Calvin
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. — Stephen Kendrick
Blaming others is excusing yourself. — Robin Sharma
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. — Oscar Wilde
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. — Aesop
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin — John Wesley
Short Self Justification Quotes
- The ends justifies the means. — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness. — Michel de Montaigne
- Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. — George Bernard Shaw
- The sinister thing about excuses is they're... valid. — Tom Bilyeu
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
Justification Quotes
Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it. — Martin Luther
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. — Martin Luther
Force when aggressively applied is "violence" and is, therefore, morally unjustifiable, but when it is used in the furtherance of a legitimate cause, it has its moral justification. The elimination of force at all costs in Utopian. — Bhagat Singh
Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't. — Oskar Schindler
It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce. — John Hagee
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
The evidence of justification by faith is the ongoing work of sanctification through the Holy Spirit. — Paul Washer
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. — Martin Luther
I take comfort in knowing that it was the shepherds to whom the angels appeared when they announced Christ's birth. Invariably throughout the course of history, God has appeared to people on the fringes. It's nice to find theological justification for your quirks. — Rich Mullins
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
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 Oscar Wilde |
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 Karen Horney |
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 Albert Camus |
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 Italian Proverbs |
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 Leon Trotsky |
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 Egyptian Proverbs |
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More Self Justification Quotes
So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for his country-men at the last judgement of the nations. — Nikolai Berdyaev
Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris
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
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification. — Anita Brookner
An ideology is a complex of ideas or notions which represents itself to the thinker as an absolute truth for the interpretation of the world and his situation within it; it leads the thinker to accomplish an act of self-deception for the purpose of justification, obfuscation and evasion in some sense or other to his advantage. — Karl Jaspers
The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of self justification and into his faults instead of freeing him from them. For him, our voice drowns the voice of God. — Paul Tournier
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification. — Paul David Tripp
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Most people, when directly confronted by evidence that they are wrong, do not change their point of view or course of action but justify it even more tenaciously. Even irrefutable evidence is rarely enough to pierce the mental armor of self-justification. — Carol Tavris
Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification. — Daniel Kahneman
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
Self-justification is a treacherous servant. — Wellington Mara
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another. — Marcus Eremita
A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I think, that a man never passes the verge of moral humility, till self-righteousness be dethroned, till the high and towering imaginations of the man's own righteousness by the law be levelled by the mighty weapons of the gospel, and he brought to submit to the righteousness of God for justification, which is, in the gospel revealed 'from faith to faith.' — Ebenezer Erskine
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 it with emotional poison. — G. Frank Lawlis
There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification. — Storm Jameson
Eradicate self-justification. Then alone can you annihilate your ego. — Sivananda
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women. — Naomi Wolf
The basic principle of altruism is that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, virtue and value. Do not confuse altruism with kindness, good will or respect for the rights of others. These are not primaries, but consequences, which, in fact, altruism makes impossible. The irreducible primary of altruism, the basic absolute, is self-sacrifice - which means: self-immolation, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-destruction - which means: the self as a standard of evil, the selfless as a standard of the good. — Ayn Rand
God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit. — Arthur Erickson
Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. — Bryant H. McGill
It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual adequacy of the biblical faith and the comparative inadequacy of its rivals, and to show the invalidity of the criticisms that are brought against it. This he seeks to do, not from any motive of intellectual self-justification, but for the glory of God and His gospel. — J. I. Packer
Dismantling the ego, quieting the mind, isn't something you can actively undertake to do. It just happens on its own, when you consciously accept the moment you are in, when you don't fight the present reality with thoughts of how you'd like it to be otherwise, or what you're afraid the next moment might bring, when you don't resist with justification or regret or blame of self or other. — Jan Frazier
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. — Paul Theroux
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying. — Jon Landau
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
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself. — Anna Quindlen
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland
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 has been hoodwinked and enslaved by her inferiors - that the master is lesser than the slave. — Elizabeth Gould Davis
Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be 'soonmoved withtheslightesttouch of blame'; very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them all the maxims, of self-justification. — Maria Edgeworth
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior? — Dan Gelber
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships. — Ayn Rand
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit. — Michael Foley
Our enemy is not lack of preparation; it’s not the difficulty of the project or the state of the marketplace or the emptiness of our bank account. The enemy is our chattering brain, which, if we give it so much as a nanosecond, will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what we know we need to do. — Steven Pressfield
The break from the supposedly culturally-narrow religious bases of knowledge in favor of supposedly trans-cultural scientific bases of knowledge served as the self-justification of a particularly pernicious form of cultural imperialism. — Immanuel Wallerstein
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. — Azar Nafisi
The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit. — Tullian Tchividjian
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