Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change.… — Scott Young Copy Share Image
There is an international disease which feeds on the notion that if you have a cause to defend, you can use any… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My approach to 'Star Trek' was, 'I know science fiction, and I know screen writing.' That was very arrogant of me, but… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with,… — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
People are more likely to search for specific books in which they are actively interested and that justify all of that effort… — Joshua Meyrowitz Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Women usually justify their actions with whatever they make up in their heads.” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Big minds have big ideas. Small minds use big ideas to justify bad ideas. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
