Justify Quotes

675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves,… — Tullian Tchividjian
The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the… — Dag Hammarskjold
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick… — Neil Gaiman
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence,… — John Milton
There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair. — Donella Meadows
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did. — Max Barry
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. — Nhat Hanh
Whenever and wherever men have engaged in the mindless slaughter of animals (including other men), they have often attempted to justify their acts by attributing… — Farley Mowat
I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something… — Jeanette Winterson
not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of… — Thomas Jefferson
I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets… — John Steinbeck
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves… — Geraldine McCaughrean
But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end. — Aldous Huxley
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart… — Benjamin Constant
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried, in his outraged pity: 'If a God has… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which… — Thomas Huxley
Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first… — Marianne Wiggins
I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I… — Stanley Kunitz
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? — Edward Abbey
The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality,… — Jose Saramago
How could I be sleeping with this particular man.... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. — Margaret Atwood
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that… — Frantz Fanon
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. — Salman Rushdie

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