Self-justification is unjust.
Toba BetaTags: self-justification unjust
Fanatics clouded by self-justification.
Toba BetaTags: fanatics self-justification a-clouded-mind-sees-nothing
Any reason could be made for self-justification.
Toba BetaTags: reasoning self-justification
Excuse tries to justify.
Toba BetaTags: excuse self-justification
Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.
George EliotTags: anger self-justification
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid—necessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
George EliotTags: prayer self-justification
Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.
Criss JamiTags: humor language psychology funny justification fallacy deceit incorrect argue debate english study babble funny-but-true debating arguing correct argumentation refutation self-justification babbling craftiness fallacies psychobabble redefine retorts wrongness
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
David MitchellTags: honesty self-perception good-intentions self-justification
Bonhoeffer examined and dismissed a number of approaches to dealing with evil. "Reasonable people," he said, think that "with a little reason, they can pull back together a structure that has come apart at the joints." Then there are the ethical "fanatics" who "believe that they can face the power of evil with the purity of their will and their principles." Men of"conscience" become overwhelmed because the "countless respectable and seductive disguises and masks in which evil approaches them make their conscience anxious and unsure until they finally content themselves with an assuaged conscience instead of a good conscience." They must "deceive their own conscience in order not to despair." Finally there are some who retreat to a "private virtuousness. Such people neither steal, nor murder,nor commit adultery, but do good according to their abilities. but... they must close their eyes and ears to the injustice around them. Only at the cost of self-deception can they keep their private blamelessness clean from the stains of responsible action in the world. In all that they do, what they fail to do will not let them rest.
Eric MetaxasTags: injustice ethics conscience self-justification moral-responsibility dealing-with-evil
Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.
Pema ChödrönTags: self-image self-righteousness self-justification
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