Top 32 He Who Justifies Himself Quotes
#1. The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.
Pindar
#3. Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool.
Martin Luther
#4. If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#5. You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one's fingers.
Arthur Koestler
#7. Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.
Henry Seidel Canby
#8. 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 those limits.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
Arthur Koestler
#12. if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves.
Viktor E. Frankl
#13. It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.
Henry B. Eyring
#14. Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#15. 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 logically justifies that certainty.
Thomas Henry Huxley
#16. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.
John Stuart Mill
#17. What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
Thomas Cranmer
#18. Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
Max Frisch
#19. 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
#20. Thorstein Veblen would say people hate squirrels, she called up to him, "because that's the only way to motivate expenditure on them - such as buying traps or guns. It's the same with stirring up patriotic emotionalism, because it justifies expenditures for defense.
Elizabeth Mckenzie
#21. There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
Noam Chomsky
#22. I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#23. Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration.
Stephen Alford
#24. Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
Emily Giffin
#25. Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.
Bill Watterson
#26. It is a struggle for the minds of the people ... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Manmohan Singh
#27. Love, then, is 'the fulfilling of the Law'. Love is the rule that contains all the other rules. Love is the commandment that justifies all the other commandments.
Paulo Coelho
#28. To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
Louis D. Brandeis
#30. There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel.
David Novak
#31. A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.
Carol Tavris
#32. justifies the cost of wounded lives and shattered people. Justice, mercy, integrity, and love are compromised for success. Decisions are based on money, numbers, and results.
John Bevere
