Rationalizations Quotes

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
Barbara Deming

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.
John McCarthy

Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
Freda Adler

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner