Justifiable Lies Quotes

#1. Legitimacy, when challenged, bases itself on an appeal to the past, while justification relates to an end that lies in the future. Violence can be justifiable, but it never will be legitimate.

Hannah Arendt

#2. Thus, all sane moralists admit that one may sometimes tell a lie; but no sane moralist would approve of telling a little boy to practise telling lies, in case he might one day have to tell a justifiable one.

G.K. Chesterton

#3. Truthfulness has never been counted among the political virtues, and lies have always been regarded as justifiable tools in political dealings.

Hannah Arendt

#4. In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.

Christina Aguilera

#5. Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone.

Philip Gulley

#6. Joy is a right and liberty of non other than me and you who struggled and fought for it and attained it at last.

Auliq Ice

#7. Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

Arlen Specter

#8. Nipples are a fact of life. We all have them.

Lee Goldberg

#9. Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.

Hedi Slimane

#10. The Mistake
He left his pants upon a chair:
She was a widow, so she said:
But he was apprehended, bare,
By one who rose up from the dead.

Theodore Roethke

#11. Mortals simply aren't what they used to be," he said. "A thousand years ago, you would have bartered your immortal soul for a crust of stale bread. Now I can't even get you to gamble at all, even for your freedom.

Rachel Caine

#12. The film industry needs to confront the physical footprint of the way films get made.

Edward Norton

#13. Maybe now and then if it's absolutely necessary to cushion someone from a world gone too harsh and bitter.

Robert James Waller