Justify Quotes

675 quotes by 548 authors

I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's… — Rachel Nichols
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On… — Gary Oldman
The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not… — Talcott Parsons
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. — Richard Perle
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. — Robert Plant
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our… — Samuel Richardson
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What… — Mitt Romney
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. — May Sarton
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. — George Bernard Shaw
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver
Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay… — Simon Sinek
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less,… — Jane Smiley
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred… — John Shelby Spong
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a… — Lysander Spooner
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. — Ralph Steadman
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. — Matt Taibbi
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. — Quentin Tarantino
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. — Randall Terry

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