“ Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning. ”
- Karen Horney- Copy
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“ In today's highly complex society it takes years of training in rationalization, accommodation, and compromise to qualify for the good jobs with the really big payoffs. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error. ”
- James Harvey Robinson- Copy
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“ Deification of accidents serves of course as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ The minute study of the process of rationalization is perhaps the most significant contribution of psychoanalysis to human progress. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. ”
- Ezra- Copy
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“ Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one's emotions. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
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“ Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. ”
- Douglas Coupland- Copy
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“ We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us. ”
- James Ramsey Ullman- Copy
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“ Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ”
- Freda Adler- Copy
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“ Luck serves … as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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“ The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvelous… ”
- Joseph Heller- Copy
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“ What is reason for one man is rationalization for another. The variable is the accepted vocabulary of motives, the ultimates of (justificatory) discourse, of each man's dominant group about whose opinion he cares. ”
- C. Wright Mills- Copy
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