Justify Quotes

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them.

Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay.

Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.

Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please go vegan.

If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is no.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere.

War justifies everything.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

To justify our likes and dislikes, we generally say that the work we dislike is not serious.

Financially, I do not need to work unless I want to, and whatever film I accept has to be right for me in the sense that it should justify the time I spend away from my husband and kids.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.

You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.

The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify.

Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.