One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of ...the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lies fall like flaxen threads from the skies All over America, and the fact that some of them are true of course... Doesn't so much not matter as serve to justify The whole mad organizing force under the billows of correct delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their po...wer, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, writt...en from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war wi...ll bear an objective examination of its merits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescit ...dissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devot...ion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused mysel...f to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »