Justified Quotes · Page 18

When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.…

— Anonymous

The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who…

— John of Kronstadt

Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials…

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so…

— George Jung

The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was…

— Lucio Russo

Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard…

— Thomas Adams

We are a commercial people. We cannot boast of our arts, our crafts, our cultivation; our boast is in the wealth we…

— Ida Tarbell

Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal.

— Swami Vivekananda

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

— William Gurnall

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at…

— Kurt Huber

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass…

— Cheryl Strayed

I think violence can never be justified.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Privative appropriation and domination are thus originally imposed and felt as a positive right, but in the form of a negative universality.…

— Raoul Vaneigem

[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to…

— J. I. Packer

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied,…

— Bertrand Russell

Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith.…

— Colin McGinn

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in…

— Augustine Birrell

Faith is precisely the paradox that the single individual as the single individual is higher than the universal, is justified before it,…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled…

— Aristotle

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or…

— Tim Soutphommasane

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified…

— Charles Dickens

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

— Warren Farrell

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

— Iris Murdoch

Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he…

— Edward Gibbon