Justifies Quotes

118 quotes by 107 authors

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to… — Louis D. Brandeis
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. — Albert Camus
We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are… — R C Sproul
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which… — Elizabeth Blackwell
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and… — Robert Wright
Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest -… — Peter Singer
Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression… — Winston Churchill
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies… — Helen Keller
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old… — Arthur Koestler
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying… — Bill Maher
The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders,… — Henry Grady Weaver
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism, — Mahmoud Darwish
We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further… — Harry Reid
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before… — Fernando Pessoa
God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin! — Joyce Meyer

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