As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.
You can lie to yourself and fool yourself and rationalize that the choice you're making is what is right and what is true and what leads to liberation, when it's actually only the fulfillment of desire.
I began to rationalize marrying Will [William Houston Price]. 'He comes from a good family. A girl could do worse. ' (As it turned out, I couldn't, but I didn't know that yet. )
We can rationalize anything and easily quit on ourselves. Leadership is refusing to quit on others.
You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.
They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
At 42, I decided to become a photographer because it offered a means of creative thought and action. I didn't rationalize this, I just felt it intuitively and followed my intuition, which I have never regretted.
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Honestly admitting what you lost and not trying to rationalize it or push it off is an important step in self-assessment and mindfulness.
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
Fate is a misplaced retreat. Many people rationalize an unexplained event as fate and shrug their shoulders when it occurs. But that is not what fate is. The world operates as a series of circles that are invisible, for they extend to the upper air. Fate is where these circles cut to earth. Since we cannot see them, do not know their content, and have no sense of their width, it is impossible to predict when these cuts will slice into our reality. When this happens, we call it fate. Fate is not a chance event but one that is inevitable, we are simply blind to its nature and time.
The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.
The creature comforts we tend to rationalize as "business expenses I can write off. "
I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.
Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice.
