Justify Quotes
675 quotes by 564 authors
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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
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Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes…
— Christopher Hitchens
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In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
— Bertrand Russell
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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
— Albert Camus
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Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the…
— Stephen Vizinczey
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Listen. Don't explain or justify.
— Wayne Dyer
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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
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I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for…
— George W. Bush
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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
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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
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The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may…
— Walter Lippmann
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Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.
— Byron Katie
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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
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
— Ayn Rand
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If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is…
— T. Harv Eker
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point…
— Abraham Lincoln
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You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you…
— T. Harv Eker
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The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs…
— Michael Polanyi
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And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner…
— John Bunyan
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