Justified Quotes
361 quotes by 316 authors
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Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.
— Albert Camus
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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the…
— Dick Cheney
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We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.
— Hillary Clinton
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I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.
— George Clooney
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Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the…
— Christopher Flynn
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The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle…
— Malcolm X
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Knowledge is justified belief.
— Jerome Bruner
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The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed.…
— Howard Martin
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There are some who, for varying reasons, would appease Red China. They are blind to history's clear lesson, for history teaches with unmistakable emphasis that…
— Douglas MacArthur
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The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they…
— George Washington
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Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified…
— George Santayana
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Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my…
— George Washington
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My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but…
— Karl Popper
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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence…
— Albert Einstein
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes…
— J I Packer
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Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
— Niels Bohr
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In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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