Justify Quotes

675 Justify quotes by 548 unique authors

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what… — Nick Harkaway
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal;… — Walter E. Williams
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything. — Glenn Greenwald
We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,… — Barack Obama
Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out… — Paul Celan
You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what… — Cheryl Strayed
She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually wanted to be convinced. She… — Max Barry
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will be used to… — Gene Sharp
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not… — Scott Lynch
Marketers... Can't simply put a more environmentally friendly package on the shelves and assume that shoppers will recognize and appreciate the change. If the goal… — Scott Young
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything… — Paul Valery
The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the… — Eric Hoffer
Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. — Emma Goldman
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty… — Abraham Lincoln
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. — Rudyard Kipling
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. — Twyla Tharp
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. — Albert Einstein
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only… — R. H. Tawney
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love. — Marquis de Lafayette
My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to… — Michael Sandel
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing… — Dan Ariely
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken.… — Ernst Haas
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the… — Gary L. Francione

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