{"quotes":[{"text":"All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.","author":"Lance Conrad","tags":["choices","justification","justified","self-exploration","wrong"],"id":1046,"author_id":"Lance+Conrad"},{"text":"I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.","author":"Daniel Willey","tags":["family","inspirational","justification","justify","kids","stress","summer","vacation","work","working"],"id":10527,"author_id":"Daniel+Willey"},{"text":"A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... How utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.","author":"Don Cupitt","tags":["cruelty","divine-command-theory","ethics","hate","humanitarian","justification","morality","objectivism","tyranny","values"],"id":12191,"author_id":"Don+Cupitt"},{"text":"Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!","author":"Harrish Sairaman","tags":["failure","justification","life","money","money","spirituality"],"id":18694,"author_id":"Harrish+Sairaman"},{"text":"I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.","author":"Noam Chomsky","tags":["ity","challenge","dismantle","domination","freedom","heirarchy","human-freedom","illegitimate-power","justification"],"id":33054,"author_id":"Noam+Chomsky"},{"text":"Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.","author":"Cathy Burnham Martin","tags":["apologies","apology","forgiveness","justification","justify","love","men","partner","rationalize","responsibility","truth","women"],"id":37309,"author_id":"Cathy+Burnham+Martin"},{"text":"Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of 'their own people,' to the exclusion of other human beings.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["beliefs","faith","justification","religions","trust"],"id":49648,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["actions","alarm","complaining","crying","crying-wolf","excuses","false","false-alarm","falsehood","justification","loneliness","responsibility","sympathy","whining","wolf","wolves"],"id":52725,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.","author":"Rudyard Kipling","tags":["humor","justification","mistakes","pretexts"],"id":53380,"author_id":"Rudyard+Kipling"},{"text":"True freedom is the gift of the Spirit, the result of grace: but, precisely because it is freedom FOR as well as freedom FROM, it isn't simply a matter of being forced now to be good, against our wills and without our cooperation, but a matter of being released from slavery precisely into responsibility, into being able at last to choose, to exercise moral muscle, knowing both that one is doing it oneself and that the Spirit is at work within, that God himself is doing that which I too am doing.","author":"N.T. Wright","tags":["christianity","god","jesus","justification","paul"],"id":68452,"author_id":"N.T.+Wright"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":108,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}