Justify Quotes

675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our… — Samuel Richardson
What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What… — Mitt Romney
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. — May Sarton
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. — George Bernard Shaw
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver
Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay… — Simon Sinek
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less,… — Jane Smiley
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred… — John Shelby Spong
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a… — Lysander Spooner
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. — Ralph Steadman
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. — Matt Taibbi
I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. — Quentin Tarantino
Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. — Randall Terry
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was… — Twyla Tharp
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside… — Leo Tolstoy
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. — Leon Trotsky
I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011. — Gary Vaynerchuk
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining,… — Christopher Walken
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart… — Samuel Witwer
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. — Reza Aslan
I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage… — Steven Wright
Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability… — Douglas Rushkoff
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product.… — Douglas Rushkoff

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