Justification Quotes

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As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939 and I have… — Donald Saunders
Winners see the dream and develop plans while the rest see the obstacles and develop justifications. — Orrin Woodward
Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification. — Malcolm Wallop
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Self-justification is a treacherous servant. — Wellington Mara
I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification. — Richard Wall
Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to… — Levy Mwanawasa
There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control. — Freda Adler
These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most… — Jacques Chirac
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in… — Thomas Cech
No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as… — Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
Since we have placed justification in the revelation of Jesus Christ formed and brought forth in the heart, there working his works of righteousness and… — Robert Barclay
But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification… — Thomas Perry
I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few… — Don Young
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do… — Michael Servetus
Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life. — Charles M. Vest
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second. — E. P. Thompson
This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and… — Peter Medawar
All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real. — Constantin Stanislavski

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