Best Justified Quotations
361 Justified quotes by 307 unique authors
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Don’t do what you know on a gut level to be the wrong thing to doI don’t think there’s a single dumbass thing I’ve done…
— Cheryl Strayed
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To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may…
— Rob Jackson
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To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and…
— Stephan Kinsella
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Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
— Guy Debord
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It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the…
— Henry Steele Commager
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I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly…
— Deborah Eisenberg
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Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is…
— Dennis Prager
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Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
— Peter Drucker
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The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in…
— C. J. Mahaney
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I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.
— Paul Krugman
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All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.
— Bruce Campbell
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Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
— Sheila Jeffreys
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Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence,
— Calvin Coolidge
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The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and…
— George Brett
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Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to…
— Andrew of Crete
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I fear it is sometimes forgotten that God has married together justification and sanctification. They are distinct and different things, beyond question, but one is…
— J C Ryle
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We live surrounded by a systematic appeal to a dream world which all mature, scientific reality would reject. We, quite literally, advertise our commitment to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in…
— Julius Evola
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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
— Leon Trotsky
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The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as…
— Eric Hobsbawm
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Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.
— G. H. Hardy
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We are justified freely, for Christ’s sake, by faith, without the exertion of our own strength, gaining of merit, or doing of works. To the age-old…
— Gerhard
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Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety…
— Aldrich Ames
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