Justify Quotes

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers.

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

Success in one role can't justify failure in another.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.

To justify God's ways to man.

In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

any compulsion tries to justify itself.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

It's such a phenomenon for a hip-hop artist to fully embrace his Christian roots and his faith. And that becomes something that people almost need you to justify.

I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

The result justifies the deed.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?