I’m sure they’ll come up with all kinds of rationalizations, if the human precedent is anything to go by.
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Chapter 17 “Fire in the Sky” (p. 284)Ken MacLeod
Eranistes: Don't offer me human rationalizations or philosophical arguments, for I rely on divine Scripture alone.
Theodoret
I, Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, am here today to claim that justice which is due to my people, and the assistance promised to it eight months ago, when fifty nations asserted that aggression had been committed in violation of international treaties.
There is no precedent for a Head of State himself speaking in this assembly. But there is also no precedent for a people being victim of such injustice and being at present threatened by abandonment to its aggressor.Haile I Selassie
A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.
David Brin
I only know that in our choice of friends and lovers and teachers who will change our lives, we are guided by forces which have nothing to do with the rationalizations we give.
Erica Jong
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler
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