Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living…

Start giving and justify living.

— Tasneem Hameed

We cannot justify ourselves in living by that particular part of the word that appeals to us, the part that we desire to obey,…

— Albert E. Bowen

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing…

— John Pilger

In terms of other people's perception of me, that's their business. There are people who I have never met but, for whatever reason, I…

— Steve Albini

“Exitus probatur,” he said. The end is justified. “Ergo acta probantur,” said one of the waiting men. Therefore the means are justified.”

— Alex Grecian

“His mean justified his end.”

— Lesley Kagen

Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an…

— Shirin Ebadi

Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is…

— Shirin Ebadi

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

— Kamand Kojouri

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one…

— Gary L. Francione

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime…

— Albert Camus

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance…

— Timothy Keller

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

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

— Dalai Lama