Social Justification Quotes

For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

There's nothing people can't contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful

No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be no lack of poets and preachers and essayists and philosophers to invent the necessary reasons and gild the infamy with righteousness. To this righteousness there is, of course, never an adequate reply. Thus a war to end poverty becomes an unanswerable enterprise. For who can decently be for poverty? To even debate whether the war will end poverty becomes an exhibition of ugly pragmatism and the sign of an ignoble mind.

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority