Justifies Quotes

118 quotes by 107 authors

It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves… — Geraldine McCaughrean
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which… — Thomas Huxley
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first… — Marianne Wiggins
the ends justifies the means — Niccolo Machiavelli
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is… — Wilhelm Reich
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. — Emily Giffin
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest… — Paulo Coelho
There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may… — Aaron Allston
First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be… — Michael Sandel
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. — Glen Duncan
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all… — Jules Verne
Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. — Margaret Haddix
Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the… — Bill Watterson
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what… — Nick Harkaway
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything. — Glenn Greenwald
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,… — Barack Obama
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the… — Eric Hoffer
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez

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