"The more educated you become, the more you develop that rational faculty which enables you to find excuses why not to do anything when others are suffering."
"We live in a society of rationalization, not rationality."
"The gray are excuses, in my view, and we can rationalize and make stuff up all day long to make ourselves feel better."
"Thank you for rationalizing on my behalf. I appreciate that."
"She rationalized that this victim had it coming, her schema, her cognitive distortions, her way of seeing the world made it easy for her to see the first victim as a potential aggressor."
"We're not reasoning beings; as one of my colleagues likes to say, we emote and then we rationalize."
"Let me find a rationalization on why the state should be allowed to tyrannize me. It's mad, it's absolutely mad, and it's gross to see."
"If you can explain it with stupidity, you don't have to explain it with malevolence."
"Every evil and deluded person in history considered themselves rational and logical, using reasons to justify their actions."
"Intelligent people are really good at rationalizing beliefs that they hold for non-intelligent reasons."
"Blaming video games for mass shootings is about as effective as the same people who cry about high-capacity magazines or cry about mental healthcare."
"She doesn't have that sort of experience, so like, it completely makes sense."
"Elon's person of the year designation makes plenty of sense."
"Human beings make decisions emotionally, and then they justify them rashly."
"Step three is to explain away all bad behavior on his part by saying it was an attempt to help an attempt to explain something or to stop something bad from happening."
"Our collective understanding of real-world sciences is core to how we map out and rationalize things, even within a fictional verse."
"Why do humans have the tendency to rationalize or even ignore obvious objective reality?"
"Because they believe their motives to be positive, that's the same thing as acting in good faith. And the problem is it's very easy to rationalize behaviors that are harmful to others and to paint some sort of positive spin on them."
"The moment that you start rationalizing your bad decisions..."
"Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos."
"I am mean to people who start being either completely irrational absurd or start being mean to me first which I think is fine as well."
"Winners shouldn't need rationalizations - are you winner or loser?"
"For that kind of money, people can justify literally anything."
"The kids are okay with it sounds less like a rallying cry for the masses and more like the rationalizations of a predator."
"If you convince yourself of your necessity... then you can rationalize your way into ignoring what we've been privy to."
"Everything happens for a reason, you know? I think honestly, that's just to make myself feel better."
"When we perform moral acts it's not like you do a thing and then you try to rationalize or justify the thing on the other hand all right the thing that you do already has a kind of logic to it."
"Just because there is an explanation for something does not mean it's an excuse."
"They buy on emotion and then they rationalize the purchase on logic."
"That makes sense, it's motivated, it's fully justified."
"Rationalization is the act of applying logic or Reason to justify something you already believe."
"If I can't have something, I have to be able to rationalize that I didn't want it in the first place."
"They always find ways to rationalize violating international law."
"We're seeing the same thing happen with the rationalization of Donald Trump by the Christian Right."
"The demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy, it is an alibi for not having one."
"Maybe it's a protection of his own mind. I don't know, he's trying to rationalize it in his own mind."
"I think you're gaslighting yourself. I think that there are some plain truths right in front of your nose and you are going to these extraordinary efforts to rationalize and justify."
"Ultimately, we all have our preferences, and we sometimes try to backwardsly reason why we like one thing over another."
"Humans are emotional beings—we activate emotion to rationalize behavior."
"Fear comes in many ways; it doesn't have to be some kind of phobia. It can come in the form of logical rationalizations."
"The feeling comes first and then your ego rationalizes."
"Human beings are terribly good at rationalizing after the fact."
"After a while, you tell yourself it was for the best, the only way, and you actually believe it."
"A sunk cost is a gift from your former self."
"I wasn't going crazy, everything I did... it wasn't the first time I done it."
"The big takeaway of that call is how good we are at convincing ourselves of things"
"You can choose to rationalize how bad things are or choose to talk yourself out of it."
"People con themselves, create a reality in their mind that's not actually happening in real life, as a way to justify giving someone more time and energy."
"Sully understands killing is wrong, but he's definitely able to use justification to rationalize what he does."
"...I think every eyewitness kind of goes through that you know it's you try to make sense of what you saw you know it must have been a bear it must have been a person and in your heart you know that's not what you saw."
"...his view... all could be somehow rationalized and it appeared to him to be thus unifiable."
"...most of the people that come upon the Twin Flame are either in a toxic relationship already and the Twin Flame is very intoxicating because it helps you to rationalize why you're getting bread crumbed."
"Organized teachings that rationalize unhealthy behavior in a relationship as a good thing are simply unkind and unhealthy."
"My mind is telling me, 'Don't put that stuff away, you use it all the time.'"
"Every single time, they can justify it. It's not that big of a deal. Move on."
"I'm trying to rationalize with an extremist. I'm glad that you think that, even after telling you that I'm trying to reduce the amount of meat I eat, you think I'm an extremist."
"The evil in this world can be rationalized. No one is born evil, sometimes if we can understand the reason, then we don’t need to fight monsters by becoming one ourselves."
"I still don't really know what happened. I tried to think it was my dad comforting me, but as I grew older, that didn't seem logical."
"No matter how hard I tried to rationalize it, I just could not find an answer."
"We lie to ourselves. We rationalize our lies."
"I brushed the whole thing off as just being late in my mind playing massive tricks on me."
"Paul interrupts the fight to explain his mother had been trained to survive poisons, so it wasn’t a miracle."
"I think deep down Walter knows that his reason for leaving gray matter was stupid so in classic World fashion he convinces himself of a lie that Gretchen and Elliot sabotaged him."
"Gambling was a pastime best left untouched," he excused himself.
"There's always a way. But people who are on the bad habit will find a reason why there's no way."
"People will rationalize things based on what they've done before."
"Rationalizations are protecting you from feeling stressed or ashamed."
"Another rationalization is 'I just need to be alone for a while, and then I'll start reconnecting with other people.'"
"It's fascinating to me like what these guys must have told themselves in order to keep doing this because they clearly have some ethical center right?"
"You rationalize what I'm doing wrong is really right, then the person's in danger."
"If you had more time to think, you might rationalize reasons why you shouldn't help. That is one of the negative thinking going on."
"It's human behavior to think, why to exit if I'm in between."
"Even the psychopath has ways of justifying his killings or psychopathy. Generally, when someone does evil, they still find a way to think it's doing some sort of good, even if their rationalization is shocking to most."
"It's amazing what people can convince themselves of or allow themselves to live with in order for self-preservation."
"They just fall back on like well I had a good reason for doing that or like I really wasn't that bad you know like trying to justify their bad behavior."
"These individuals become experts at rationalizing their own selfishness. Accountability doesn't work with them."
"People make up any excuse they can for stuff, man."
"The people who observe that suffering, that see that suffering, they want their theological philosophical questions to be answered at a rational level, meaning that the people addressing them are trying to rationalize something very emotional."
"You're going to lose it all if you don't do this. So what's one more thing? Yeah, it doesn't make any difference. Absolutely right."
"We make excuses for what we love."
"The thing that I used to do, it's all out of proportion. We're being victimized for petty metal, that's all it is. It's no more than a six-month imprisonment charge."
"I found it interesting how they've managed to justify it to themselves."
"We are really bad at predicting. But we are really good at retrospectively rationalizing."
"Can't rationalize budget into bad writing."
"When it becomes a religion, you can justify almost anything in its name."
"the logical part of my brain tried to rationalize the experience to dismiss it as a trick of the light or the product of an overactive imagination but deep down I knew what I had seen was real."
"You might start making excuses for that behavior because it was so good."
"We convince ourselves that it's just pines falling from trees above us."
"A lot of the time what we view as our rational judgments of other people are instead post hoc rationalizations rushing there to make sense."
"We have this incredible ability to justify things."
"...the choice to have a child is an emotional decision and then we try to rationalize it using logic and analytical thought but the decision itself is an emotional one."
"I think he somehow becomes convinced that polygamy is a commandment of God and is able to create maybe a guilt-free attitude in his own mind."
"Denial simply says both A and not A are true; there is no contradiction. The contradiction is only apparent."
"Rationalization or intellectualization is to cast one's behavior after the fact in a favorable light."
"I now realize how easily things can be rationalized and explained away, even when you know better. That sixth sense told me that it wasn't a tweaker, even though I was first willing to accept that explanation."
"Convinced himself that what he was doing was okay."
"It's almost amazing how hell can take little things and before long you justify the dysfunction."
"And you're going to resolve this volition of dissonance by somehow displacing your hatred, rationalizing your hatred, reframing reality, and getting rid of the hatred, denying it, for example, repressing it, or externalizing the locus of control."
"It makes sense, it could have happened."
"That's what we all do when we make decisions, isn't it?"
"I rationalized it this way: I was young. People don't get cancer until they've smoked for like 30 years, so I will quit when I go to college in three years."
"Excuses: a not so cleverly disguised lie."
"Am I cherry picking? Yes. The guy wants to make me to be a bad guy about that, he has no idea what he's talking about."
"Your brain will make up the most ridiculous reasons, and we are blind to it."
"That's the difference. If you're truly strong, you don't need those kind of rationalizations."
"90% of the people in my generation, if they were in my shoes, they have done the same thing. 100%."
"When you manifest a ton, the first time something comes along that feels like what you've manifested, that's when you start lying to yourself."
"Bad activity always leads to stress and anxiety, even if we rationalize it."
"If you add just the right amount of perspective you can justify anything."
"They're trying to convince themselves as much as everyone else that what they're doing is okay, and anyone who doesn't like it can get screwed."
"We're civilized people in a civilized world. Things like this don't happen to us. They just don't happen."
"Don't stand around and try to rationalize and justify because the longer you talk, oh, the longer the adversary can wear down your defenses."
"...they buy on emotion and they justify with logic..."
"Just another dragon," he told himself, "you should be an expert on these by now."
"That's a really easy excuse and answer to give."
"Possession is an excuse for being an inexcusably awful person, I agree most of the time and refrain from such poor attempts at rationalizing bad behaviour."
"We say everything happens for a reason. That, to me, can fall in the category of rationalization."
"Insanity was the logical defense because no one wants to believe that there’s someone out there that will do things like that."
"That's why it's tough today because today's consumer it's probably a bit severe than yesterday's consumer right so so when logic I mean that logic [ __ ] logic so when reason decides he wants to true I'm a genius what I'm not."
"Most guys left to their own devices aren't going to cheat on you anyway, so why not cheat with a winner?"
"For you to hear God speak in the Bible and then you now say you rationalize and say it's Old Testament, that's the cheapest way for you to live as a slave even within the context of the New Covenant."
"But as well as saying that you can't eliminate fraud, you also can't tolerate it because once you start tolerating it if you tolerate it at the high level then you make it much easier to rationalize it at the low level."
"Sometimes in this movie Batman comes across as a dick, but he should be a dick. It's just a billionaire who dresses up like a bat and fights crime. He's not really sane."
"I don't know, no one presented me with any other options. I didn't want to rationalize."
"You start making excuses to justify their toxic behavior."
"It's good to rationalize all this."
"They will try to equalize, they try to invalidate you by validating themselves. 'I know I did you wrong, but I'm hurting too, damn it. I'm hurting too!'"
"They absolutely use you to rationalize their toxic behaviors because you took me back. If you didn't, why would you take me back? So it must not be that bad."
"...we call our vices by the name of virtue."
"I rationalized selling crack because I was already addicted to it."
"Still, it's wrong. Maybe it is but deep down you know that what people like Falcone and Moroni do is far worse than what I'm doing."
"Girl Math is basically how girls rationalize spending money."
"It was easy for Germans who weren't Jewish to justify their actions themselves, thinking that well, someone's going to get these items anyway, so is it so bad if I buy them for this bargain basement price?"
"People buy emotionally first, then rationalize it later."
"When people ghost on you, the number one thing they tell themselves is she probably doesn't care anyway. They downplay their involvement and their importance in your life to downplay the crime that they're committing against you."
"I rationalize with the best of them, but I know there are things that just can't be explained."
"Procrastination is the most common manifestation of resistance because it's the easiest to rationalize."
"Rationalization is resistance's right-hand man."
"Well, it makes as much sense as anything we can think of." - Saunders
"It seems so very likely that our rejection of the world is only the disappointed Fox's attempt to convince himself that unattainable grapes are sour."
"Panic set in not too long after, Carter attempted to be rational, playing it off as Aaron trying to get revenge on us, but that just wasn't the kind of person that he was."
"This lie actually made sense to them."
"It's a little piece of the truth, and then you make it so you can live with yourself."
"There are things in this world that we can't explain. At the end of the day, we will try our best to make sense of it when logic and reason fail."
"Reason is just a shield for those that cower behind it."
"You trick yourself into believing stupid stuff."
"Yeah, but’ syndrome, as I like to call it, is part of the human condition."
"There's rationalization to it, I mean there's nothing wrong with trying to understand why he would make a move like this."
"We all tell ourselves the things we want to hear to make our vices seem more virtuous."
"People can be okay with really horrible things if you get a positive spin on something."
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, because you are the easiest person to fall."
"I think it's one of those things that you half believe but you say them more as like a self-coping mechanism."
"I can wish it away, but that doesn't make sense."
"...people you know sellers or people buy emotionally and they justify logically right so education is very very important in this market."
"How can you continue to do this and then do it under the excuse that that's not what it means to me?"
"Humans are not rational beings, they're rationalizing beings."
"I kind of had to get it. That's an excuse we use, isn't it guys? I had to get this."
"Intuition is what the mind immediately apprehends before rationalizing."
"Every Jehovah's Witness has something they do that they don't feel good about every Jehovah's Witness and uh we all rationalized it however we had to rationalize it uh because we were all just humans and they expect you to be to be something other than that so yeah."
"The mind rationalizes and justifies behavior to evade accountability."
"Rationalize buying positions kind of just because."
"Men love to complicate their lives and then justify why they complicate their lives."
"It's quite scientific if you ask me."
"They made these decisions as kids and built arguments on top of it."
"Never underestimate the capacity of man to rationalize."
"I felt half bad at first, but then I thought, why the hell would I not take it?"
"Rationalization: Providing reasonable explanations to justify actions."
"He didn't have sex with her, it was just a bit of fun."
"I mean, when I get home, he'll just be there with this explanation that is so reasonable and so logical that this whole day will suddenly make sense."
"It's amazing what your brain can do to rationalize something that it does not want to accept."
"So what, you can complain about price but you don't change your habit? That's kind of insane."
"He's a guy who told women to strip naked in his office, but he's also a really good guy that we should love and respect."
"People love excuses, yes they do. And I think the explanation is not because it's entertaining, it's because it makes them feel better."
"Our thoughts try to justify our sinful behavior."
"When we want to do something wrong, it's always possible to find some good reason to do it."
"You come up with every single reason why this doesn't apply to you."
"My thought was, look you're making it all back in one night so it's fine."
"It hurt me a little bit to buy them knowing how much they were but once I kind of got over that it was worth every penny."
"I'm bitter. I think about what or if I could have done something different. Maybe then he wouldn't have done all this and I keep making excuses for him in some type of way."
The song isn’t just a roast. No, that’d be too easy. If Greg just says "hey, you suck, I’m leaving," that she could at least rationalize.
"Rationalization is trying to justify my behaviors."
"It's not cheating, it's just borrowing."
"The way we see it, we got his money fair and clear."
"And they don't want to believe that losers lose sometimes."
"You just got to think, 'Right, there's millions of people in this country that drive every day, so you're another person, so you can do what they can do.' That's how I rationalize everything."
"Deterring them militarily and allowing them to succeed economically is our best hope of rationalizing the situation."
"It's an experience that has never left me, and although I try to rationalize it, it's sort of haunting me in a way."
"There's so much of that sin... people that know God and yet they rationalize."
"You're trying to convince yourself that he's somehow healthy for you."
"Reason has been reduced to rationalizing, not reasoning."
"If you murder a person that's like irrelevant, getting your way right yeah yeah okay."
"People buy with their emotions and rationalize their purchase with logic."
"If you've already found truth without it a lot of our great discoveries we discover by accident by intuition by hunch by instinct and then we try them and when they succeed we post rationalize them."
"Business is an input and output game if you remove the emotion and you take all of your fear and worry and anxiety and self-hatred and anger away from the from the equation and you just boil it down to the numbers you can rationalize predictable work."
"I wanted to rationalize that what I had just seen was just a product of reading these files that my tired mind had simply conjured this hallucination..."
"We can use all of this information to rationalize the current density trends."
"People commit fraud because of pressure, opportunity, and rationalization."
"I can't think of any way that you could rationalize the saving of our house, except it had to be a miracle."
"The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world."
"I'm just a little out of shape," he reasoned to himself.