“What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.” PeopleSelfBehaviorPerceptionPreservesJustifySelf Perception Author:Christopher Golden
“I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.” SeemsIdentityAcceptancePerceptionMirrorsWho You AreWho I AmSmokeDeceptionJustifyI Am Who I Am Author:Jason Mraz
“If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.” IfsMatterLeftEasySimpleCommonPerceptionLuckFortuneVariousIncomeJustifySchemesSuccess And FailureIncome Redistribution Book:The Terrible Truth about Liberals Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are people attracted to narratives of control and fear and hunting down the terrorists, and this uncaring attitude toward nature? These come from what I call the perceptions of separation and the experience of separation, the experience of alienation, the experience of scarcity and anxiety and competition, and a world in which everybody is out for themselves and nobody cares.” PeopleWorldCareAttitudeTerribleAnxietyPerceptionCompetitionSeparationTerroristJustifyHuntingAlienationNobody Cares Author:Charles Eisenstein
“In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I am certain that these people are jack-offs. I've never met Billy Joel, but I'm absolutely convinced he's an asshole. I can't justify that opinion, that's just what I think. But my opinion about Billy Joel isn't going to affect him in the slightest. In the same way, I am sure there are people out there who are completely convinced that I am an asshole, for whatever reason. They might even feel more justified than I feel about my presumptive opinion of Billy Joel.” PeopleThinkingReasonTermOpinionPerceptionJustifyJustified Author:Steve Albini
“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.” TryingMindSometimesFeelingsHappensPerceptionResponsePerceiveJustifyImperfectEchoesSync Author:John Piper
“To the extent that we hyper-separate ourselves from nature and reduce it conceptually in order to justify domination, we not only lose the ability to empathise and to see the non-human sphere in ethical terms, but also get a false sense of our own character and location that includes an illusory sense of autonomy. The failure to see the non-human domain in the richer terms appropriate to ethics licences supposedly ‘purely instrumental’ relationships that distort our perceptions and enframings, impoverish our relations and make us insensitive to dependencies and interconnections” HumansCharacterOrderUnderstandingTermNatureLosesAbilityCompassionRelationshipFailurePerceptionEmpathyEthicsRelationIncludingSeparationAppropriateJustifyEthicalSympathySpheresLocationDominationAutonomyDomainHumaneReducingDistortionDependencyHyperIllusoryInsensitiveInterconnection Book:Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason Source: Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason
“Considering that virtually none of the standard fare surrounding Thanksgiving contains an ounce of authenticity, historical accuracy, or cross-cultural perception, why is it so apparently ingrained? Is it necessary to the American psyche to perpetually exploit and debase its victims in order to justify its history?” OrderPerceptionStandardsCrossesVictimHistoricalAuthenticityJustifyConsideringExploitsAccuracyHistorical Accuracy Author:Michael Dorris