Justify Quotes

675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
Listen. Don't explain or justify. — Wayne Dyer
Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to an individual, a… — Arthur W. Pink
I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for… — George W. Bush
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which… — Elizabeth Blackwell
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may… — Walter Lippmann
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. — Byron Katie
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand
If a person weren't failing in some way, shape or form, would he or she need to blame, justify, or complain? The obvious answer is… — T. Harv Eker
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point… — Abraham Lincoln
You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you… — T. Harv Eker
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner… — John Bunyan
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of… — Pope Benedict XVI
[Christ's] mission and work it is to help against sin and death, to justify and bring life. He has placed his help in baptism and… — Martin Luther
Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?… — A. E. Housman
Think of it : zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and… — Robert Wright
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. — Unknown Author
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has… — Henry Fielding
Love your sport. Never do it to please someone else; it has to be yours. That is all that will justify the hard work. Compete… — Peggy Fleming
Lions cannot afford to hunt mice because they literally will starve to death, even if they catch them. Lions and all large carnivores have to… — Newt Gingrich

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