Justify Quotes · Page 5

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

— Manisha Sinha

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

— Randall Terry

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.

— Louis D. Brandeis

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

— John Calvin

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

— Lance Armstrong

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

— Leon Trotsky

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

— Merrill McPeak

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

— Howard Dean

There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or a single death. Please…

— Gary L. Francione

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves…

— Albert Camus

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate…

— James Luther Adams

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

The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent…

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing…

— Martin Landau

“the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human…

— Eckhart Tolle

Everyone knows drones are being deployed outside the US for assassinations. Let's say you even believe in drones. Shouldn't we have a…

— Robert Greenwald

“A Man who doesn't want to justify himself after being falsely accused, is apparently at Fault — or he has been accused…

— Sino Melo

If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem…

— David Graeber

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like…

— Michael Faraday

We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we…

— Paul Klee

Every major power always seeks to justify its action on moral grounds. Such behaviour is almost as old as the hills. The…

— Martin Jacques

When virtuous mental attitudes, like mindfulness, respect, and compassion, are invoked to justify nonvirtuous acts like hunting, fishing, and eating animal products,…

— Norm Phelps

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

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

— Timothy Keller

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract.…

— Spencer W. Kimball

“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have…

— Cheryl Strayed

It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the…

— Byron White

Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof…

— Ronald Reagan

I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of…

— James Salter

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as…

— Aleister Crowley

No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with…

— Samuel Johnson

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.

— Malcolm Forbes

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

— Alexandra Stoddard

Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

— Hamza Yusuf

All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love.

— Marquis de Lafayette

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

— Gore Vidal

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

— Orrin Woodward

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

— Milan Kundera

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

— Ursula K. Le Guin