Justification Mechanism Quotes

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

Winning excuses everything.

The human moral sense can excuse any atrocity in the minds of those who commit it, and it furnishes them with motives for acts of violence that bring them no tangible benefit.

I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.

How can it be illegal or unethical if the most important man in Congress is doing it?

Moral licensing comes into play when people rely on past behavior to dismiss current prejudiced behavior. This is better known as the 'Some of my best friends are...' defense.