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Justification Quotes - Page 2

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

Division of labor is a justification for sloth.

"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.79, 1909.

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

"You must be Joaquin" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2003.

There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.22, A&C Black

There is no justification for having an affair.

"Interview: Shanola Hampton on Things Never Said DVD". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. December 3, 2013.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

"Garry Kasparov on Russia, chess, and the great gambit of AI". Interview with Alexander Bisley, www.macleans.ca. May 1, 2017.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.72, Penguin

I am not your justification for existence.

Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt