Justify Quotes

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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
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
In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do. — W. Somerset Maugham
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. — Bertrand Russell
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
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
Listen. Don't explain or justify. — Wayne Dyer
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
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
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 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
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie
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
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand
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
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
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
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
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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