Justify Quotes

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.

I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.

If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.

Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others.

You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

Racists have often used pseudoscience to justify their socially damaging views; watch these films to see how science, by replacing ignorance with knowledge, can undo that damage.

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the secret doubts that arise in one's own bosom.

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.

There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment.

Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.

Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor.

People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.

[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

People are able to justify immense cruelty and say that it is something that is sanctioned by their faith.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

We are fighting hard against radical Islamic terrorism, and we will prevail. We cannot accept those who reject our values and who use hatred to justify violence against the innocent.

As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith.