Justify Quotes

To justify an unorthodox life by writing about it is to re-inscribe the original violation, to re-violate masculine turf.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.

I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.

Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment. Asking me about violence is like going up to Vincente Minnelli and asking him to justify his musical sequences.

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

September 11th does not justify ignoring the Constitution by creating broad new federal police powers. The rule of law is worthless if we ignore it whenever crises occur.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

I think when you're reaching outside of something you're comfortable doing, you're just heading towards a light. I don't think you stop to justify it.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

The ends do not justify the means

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

The animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.

It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.

We are all innocent, until we die.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

Don’t say to yourself, ‘Everyone argues!’ to justify and normalise your fighting, when the most natural thing is to love.

Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust.

Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.

One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we’re in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that’s not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

If someone’s beliefs are fixed and false, he or she can do anything to justify their beliefs.

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

It's said that people who give excuses for the reason not do something always formulate those excuses, waiting for the reason to surface to justify their excuses!

Integrity involves the ability to stand straight when you tell your truth, and still stand straight when the other person comes to talk!

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you'll not be committed for blame.

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.