Justify Quotes

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Does a soldier go to war in order to kill the enemy? no, he goes in order to die for his country. Does a wife… — Paulo Coelho
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it. — Charlaine Harris
We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it,… — James Frey
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. — Arthur Miller
Must you know that yours will be the â€œbetterâ€ picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture?… — Neale Donald Walsch
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way. — R A Salvatore
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
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants… — Jorge Luis Borges
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom this is true… — Alfie Kohn
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things… — Mercedes Lackey
Yes, it sucked getting dumped. But wasn't it better to just be brutally honest? To admit that your feeling for someone is never going to… — Sarah Dessen
Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter… — Gore Vidal
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 of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means... — Paulo Coelho
But how,â€ said Charles, who was close to tears, â€œhow can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?â€™ Henry lit a cigarette. â€œI prefer to think of… — Donna Tartt
Presidents have absolutely gone against the will of Congress. Congress hasn't declared a war since December 7, 1941, and yet we've been at war ever… — Gore Vidal
We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes. — Gary L. Francione
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. — Ursula K. Le Guin

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