Justified Quotes

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.

My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

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.

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence?

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified.

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead...'

It is a good rule in life to be wary of the company of people who think of themselves in the third person, no matter how well justified they might seem to be in doing so.

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose, then surely we are justified in suicide.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism, and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified, in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity.

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.