Justify Quotes

675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors

The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost… — Jack Kornfield
I think in general the ends do not justify the means. — Howard Dean
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender. — Natan Sharansky
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction… — David Blankenhorn
And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't?… — Ronald Reagan
If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then thereâ€™s nothing that you cannot justify. Thereâ€™s nothing you canâ€™t survive, because thereâ€™s nothing… — Emily St. John Mandel
The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I'm benefiting from someone else's tragedy. This idea haunts me. It's something I have to… — James Nachtwey
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify… — Lev Landau
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on… — Steven Pressfield
This is how they justify not wanting to strive for self-improvement. It's how they explain their continued inaction. It's just an excuse. There are plenty… — Valeria Lukyanova
Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary… — Dennis Flanagan
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were)… — Edmund Burke
Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying. — Ronald Reagan
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. — Paul Valery
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything… — Lord Chesterfield
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our… — Albert Camus
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place… — Alberto Manguel

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