Justification Quotes - Page 2
[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
Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage
"Path of Life". Book by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by M. Cote (2002), p.79, 1909.
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
"Mutilated Humanity" by Ashley Montagu, 1991.
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
Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.143, Transaction Publishers
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan
Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt