Justify My Existence Quotes

#1. All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Prince Charles

#2. When children are stripped of a primary experience base as confinement schooling must do to justify its existence, the natural sequence of learning is destroyed, a sequence which puts experience first.

John Taylor Gatto

#3. Can you justify your existence then?

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

David Lodge

#5. We all fight wars - in our work, within our families and abroad in the wider world. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.

Steven Pressfield

#6. Every individual concerned to justify his existence feels that his existence involves an undefined need to transcend himself, to engage in freely chosen projects. pg. xxxiii

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

Stephenie Meyer

#8. 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 noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. ...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

Yrsa Sigurdardottir

#10. I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Quentin Tarantino

#11. The hour when you say, What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.

Paul Theroux

#13. There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Frank Tashlin

#14. Living for oneself, respecting our being is one of the most important code of anybody's existence and a person who fails to justify his being fails to justify the society as well..

Tripta Arora

#15. Whichever group is in ascension at a given moment is, historically speaking, both unlikely to acknowledge the existence of abuses or bias, and also to justify the bias on any grounds they can - social, biological, what have you.

Elizabeth Bear

#16. I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.

Mookie Wilson

#17. A man who sets out to justify his existence and his activities has to distinguish two different questions. The first is whether the work which he does is worth doing; and the second is why he does it (whatever its value may be).

G.H. Hardy

#18. People seem to deny the existence of animal emotions so that they can continue to justify inhumane treatment and exploitation and avoid the fact that our actions have a deep emotional impact on our fellow beings.

Stacey O'Brien

#19. You are alive, and you don't need to justify your existence. You can be the biggest mystery in your own story.

Miguel Ruiz

#20. There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids?

Pawan Mishra

#21. Although the reason for the existence of women is obvious enough, nobody has any real idea what point there is in being a man. Men have however, made many attempts to justify their existence.

Steve Jones

#22. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Eric Hoffer

#23. Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

Melissa Farley

#24. We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence ... on pain of liquidation

George Bernard Shaw

#25. Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Friedrich Engels

#26. An existant can never justify the existence of another existant.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#27. The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

Georgia Harkness

#28. To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Charles Baudelaire

#29. I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority

Killer Mike

#30. All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

Edward Abbey

#31. Why would God create a defective product? Why would a God who gave me free will require any certain belief? Why would a God powerful enough to create the universe need me to justify His existence? Why would He want me seeking favor with Him to manipulate my entrance to some afterlife?

David W. Earle

#32. Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.

Hamza Yusuf

#33. The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis
only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

Dag Hammarskjold

#34. Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Josef Pieper