Justification Quotes

“Attempting to justify a lie is something akin to poking a really big hornet’s nest with a really short stick. The distance between you and disaster isn’t any longer than the stick or the wisdom that you exercised in choosing it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Evil will have unleashed the fullness of itself at the point that it becomes convinced that it is not evil.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Are we the fool of the narrative? Whether we have tediously written out the narratives to explain our world, or allay our fears, or justify our agendas, or excuse our behaviors. Or whether we have given ourselves entirely over the narratives of others who write them for the same reasons. Are we the fool of the narrative?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Never fool yourself into believing that your agenda is sufficiently worthy to somehow justify the manipulation of the people whom you wish to impose it upon.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s nothing redeeming about lying, other than it alerts others to the nature of your character.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Pointing the finger is often the way that we say that it wasn’t us, when the stuff that we’re holding with the other four fingers says something quite different.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can feed people any lie that you want. And while there’s no nutritional value in any lie, there is a whole lot of indigestion.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The thing about justifications is that they’re required when there’s not enough truth in what we’re doing to justify it without justifying it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We wear masks not to be something different, but to deny the ‘something different’ that we are without the mask.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Of course, 1+1 makes 2 and blue to yellow gives green. But if we forget for a while the abstract knowledge or the laws of nature, and focus on the “knowledge” of particular situations, events, persons etc., then we can observe that it is almost never: “I know”; it is practically always: “I believe”.
Humans and all the intelligent creatures of this world operate through beliefs, more or less justified, more or less true, more or less convincing. Because the biological apparatus of one hundred percent accuracy has not yet been “invented” in nature. And it never will.”
― Giannis Delimitsos, A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms

“Fate” is how we explain our mistakes.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The truth might hurt for a moment, but a lie never stops hurting.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you think about it, the only reason that the phrase ‘the end justifies the means’ was written is because we needed to make ourselves feel okay about doing something that wasn’t.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At the point that we have allowed a lie to become our truth, we have become everything that the world doesn’t need and nothing of what it does. But greater still, we ourselves have become everything that we don’t need and nothing of what we do.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest part of a lie is the lie that it’s somehow worth telling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If it looks like a skunk and walks like a skunk, it’s probably a skunk. And if I live in denial of that reality, the stench of my denial is going to cover me for a long time. But the greatest denial of all is to believe that I don’t stink.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If we can’t seem to solve a problem, it may be that we refused to acknowledge that it was problem in the first place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The most problematic mistakes are the ones that we refuse to admit.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The gap between what’s right and what’s convenient only gets wider the more that we attempt to cross it. And that’s why the only bridges are the ones at the bottom.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Being honest with yourself might be hard, but anything else is betraying yourself. And that is always harder.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The need to justify oneself only arises when there is a breach of trust or trust deficit between two people. In both circumstances, justifications won’t help build any bridges in the relationship.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Trying to justify someone may take a lifetime. Do you really need to justify someone?”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“If it can’t stand without the props of rationalization and justification, you can be assured that it never stood to begin with and it will never stand to end with.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is no justification for what you've done, Ansel P, but God knows you've got the time to keep searching.”
― Danya Kukafka, Notes on an Execution

“The more the lies, the greater the fall.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Fiction as entertaining my desire to escape fact can pen a truly incredible story, but it can never create anything other than a truly disastrous ending. And as such, escape itself is the fiction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I’ve been talking about the ins and outs of local mandates so far. These are situations where you are the decision maker, which gives you access to a wealth of information as well as all of the players. In any decent-sized organization, you are equally likely to be on the receiving end of foreign mandates. This is a mandate that occurs way outside of your sphere of influence. We have a brand new strategy. Ready. Go.Yes, the tables are turned. Mandates might just randomly show up and there isn’t a thing you can do about it. Guess what? The same rules mentioned previously apply, with one exception. Just like your team, you are going to have one of the three opinions (yay, boo, or yawn) regarding the mandate. Regardless of what your opinion is, you must figure out the justification behind the mandate.”
― Michael Lopp, Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

“To attempt to justify a lie is much like pouring water into a bucket with no bottom while actually thinking that you have a bucket.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How often is insanity the excuse for sanity run amuck?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“When a man loves a woman, he will not listen to the lies and justifications of any action but his own heart”
― J.S. Dirga, Saga Moon Poem