Justify Quotes · Page 3

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed…

— John F. Kennedy

[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.

— Chuck Todd

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin…

— Thomas Sowell

The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every…

— Robert Scheer

I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under…

— Edward Snowden

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

— Anonymous

Being honest when you're dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view...Being…

— Jeffrey Gitomer

In a nutshell, the ability of American companies to compete in world markets depends on creating conditions in which workers can add…

— James O'Toole

You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on?…

— Bruce Lee

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

— Russ Feingold

It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if…

— Louis Berkhof

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

— John Calvin

Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.

— Emily Giffin

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a…

— Emma Goldman

Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does…

— David Blankenhorn

Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than…

— Nigel Hamilton

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

— Albert Camus

I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest…

— George Whitefield

The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether…

— Judith Butler

I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent,…

— Christopher Walken

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

— Gary Lineker

I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change…

— Immortal Technique