Justify Quotes

675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. — Jonathan Safran Foer
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. — Margaret Atwood
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has damaged… — Steve Martin
But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart. — Unknown Author
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only… — Thomas Sowell
I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field… — Bill Hicks
The reason I am so popular is that I give others back what they need to find in themselves. You need me not because I… — Azar Nafisi
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality. — John Twelve Hawks
Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness… — Hermann Hesse
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify… — Stephen Kendrick
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through… — Terry Goodkind
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. — Colleen McCullough
the ends never justify the means because IT never ends. — Martha Gellhorn
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it — Mark Twain
the ends justifies the means — Niccolo Machiavelli
You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master. — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying… — James Salter
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world. — Stephenie Meyer
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to… — Albert Camus
You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is… — Wilhelm Reich
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. — Emily Giffin

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