Justify Quotes
675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors
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Hunger justifies the middle classes.
— Julien Torma
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The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.
— Unknown Author
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People who truly have control over time always have some in their pocket to give to someone in need. A sense of priorities drives their…
— Scott Berkun
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Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept…
— Megan Chance
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But nothing will persuade me that the mere fact of being in a place is enough in itself to justify the effort of getting out…
— Jenny Diski
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You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok.
— Tori Amos
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A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained…
— Don Cupitt
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Life is made of moments and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact Then there's a different kind of moment. One…
— Jessi Kirby
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Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
— Leon Kass
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Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify…
— Graeme Simsion
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We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already…
— Margaret MacMillan
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
— Dallas Willard
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It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds…
— Dale Carnegie
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I started making choices based on what I wanted, and didn’t feel like I needed to justify them. If I wanted to cut my hair,…
— Taylor Swift
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To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
— Martin Luther
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
— John Calvin
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It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease…
— David G. McAfee
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The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts…
— Albert Camus
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The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism".…
— Ron Paul
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You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
— Garrison Keillor
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The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this…
— George Carey
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We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.
— Don Henley
Who Wrote These Justify Quotes
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