Rationalizations Quotes

(on Errol Flynn) Errol Flynn was a joy, a lovely man, and most of the talk about him is nothing but rumor by people who didn`t even know him. He loved to talk about how much he could drink and the women he`d made love to, but most of it was just the rationalizations of a disappointed moralist. He was the hardest-working, most down-to-earth actor I have ever worked with.

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

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

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