Justify Quotes

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We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important… — Gary L. Francione
If history shows anything, it is that there's no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by… — David Graeber
Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying… — Josef Pieper
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas… — Julian Barnes
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's… — Paulo Coelho
Anarchists try to identify power structures. They urge those exercising power to justify themselves. This justification does not succeed most of the time. — Noam Chomsky
The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. — Haruki Murakami
If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action. — John Flanagan
Life is nothing in itself. Itâ€™s a place marker that proves whoâ€™s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is… — Brent Weeks
The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we… — Cheryl Strayed
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
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal;… — Walter E. Williams
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything. — Glenn Greenwald
We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
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
Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out… — Paul Celan
You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what… — Cheryl Strayed
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She… — Max Barry
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to… — Gene Sharp
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not… — Scott Lynch

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