Justify Quotes

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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted… — Henri Frederic Amiel
God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin! — Joyce Meyer
Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the… — Stephen LaBerge
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument… — Peter Singer
A man who is truly humble is not troubled when he is wronged and he says nothing to justify himself against the injustice, but he… — Isaac of Nineveh
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. — Daniel Greenberg
In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. — Stefan Collini
Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill.… — Joan Dunayer
I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native… — Hari Kondabolu
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking… — Spencer W. Kimball
The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows… — Gerry Spence
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of… — Tony Blair
When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them… — H. L. Richardson
I was stricken by news and television pictures coming from the United States this morning. It is impossible to fully comprehend the evil that would… — Jean Chretien
The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of… — Unknown Author
You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay. — Tori Amos
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt
Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me… — Toussaint Louverture

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