Justify Quotes

#1. The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.

Shulamith Firestone

#2. And these are the same
type of people who kill
the innocent and
justify it by saying
"They've gone to be
with Jesus now"
But we won't talk
about how they
crucified Him, too

Phil Volatile

#3. Assaults by fanatics on our safety... does not justify assaults by the government on our freedom!

Andrew P. Napolitano

#4. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.

Bertrand Russell

#6. Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable
it is sumpathy.

Thomas Mann

#7. As soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

Harry S. Truman

#8. Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

David Limbaugh

#9. Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.

Charlie Munger

#10. [I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

Jennifer Egan

#11. Making LDL the "bad cholesterol" oversimplified the science considerably, but it managed to salvage two decades' worth of research, and to justify why physicians had bothered to measure total cholesterol in their patients.

Gary Taubes

#12. The crimes of religion pale in comparison to those of secular regimes. This doesn't justify wrongs done in the name of Christianity, but it does undermine unchecked enthusiasm for a godless utopia.

Scott Klusendorf

#13. Never justify yourself to people who don't matter

Steven Aitchison

#14. While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

Hyde

#15. If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

David Horowitz

#16. What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Thomas Henry Huxley

#17. To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.

Henry Rollins

#18. She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly no the last.

Greer Macallister

#19. I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Matt Groening

#20. The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.

Ben Kingsley

#21. Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying.

Ronald Reagan

#22. I woke up one day and thought: 'I want to write a book about the history of my body.' I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

Paul Auster

#23. ...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

#24. Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable.

Donald P. Ryan

#25. Life requires no future to complete itself nor explanation to justify itself. In this moment it is finished.

Alan W. Watts

#26. You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.

John Fowles

#27. You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?

Christina Engela

#28. Every time I complete a major project I reward myself with two full days of just reading and coffee! I do justify that it is my work!

Delia J. Colvin

#29. The attempt to justify and rationalize the death of a whole nation, including women, children, the old and infirm, must itself be considered a crime against humanity.

Taner Akcam

#30. The ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

Martha Gellhorn

#31. I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves,

Osmel Sousa

#32. The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Jose Saramago

#33. How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

Sherman Alexie

#34. In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,

Charles Dickens

#35. Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.

Arne Jacobsen

#36. A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

Daniel J. Levitin

#37. Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

Charles Kimball

#38. I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"
as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.

Jack Henry Abbott

#39. Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

Paul Rusesabagina

#40. The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#41. Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

George Deukmejian

#42. Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

#43. I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

Uma Thurman

#44. The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.

Timothy Noah

#45. 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

#46. Here was a place where men and life and death had reached the lowest form of degradation. How could any reward in national progress even faintly justify the establishment and operation of
such a place?

Charles Lindbergh

#47. Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Mahatma Gandhi

#48. He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

Neal Shusterman

#49. Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

John Bunyan

#50. When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically ... but that does not justify him in pretending ... that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

George Bernard Shaw

#51. If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it.
But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it.

Toba Beta

#52. Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.

Gore Vidal

#53. If we cannot justify the very concept of the aesthetic, except as ideology, then aesthetic judgement is without philosophical foundation. An 'ideology' is adopted for its social or political utility, rather than its truth. And

Roger Scruton

#54. How she realized at last that not even love
could justify this, that no affection could, not ever.
Still, in the glass, she sees her own mouth,
opening and closing and silent as a fish.

Zoe Brigley

#55. I raised an eyebrow. Since when did they need real news to justify the slugfest? Barry gave me a knowing smile behind the assistant's back as he ducked into his studio.

Marcia Clark

#56. Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.

Brittany Burgunder

#57. We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.

M.F. Moonzajer

#58. I go to dance clubs ... about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

Bill Hicks

#59. Even today we raise our hand against our brother ... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

Pope Francis

#60. The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

James Morcan

#61. You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

Jean Racine

#62. In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Bill Vaughan

#63. I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

Moby

#64. The only way to reduce our national debt is to grow the economy and cut spending. We have no idea how our money is being spent. As president, I will move all agencies to zero-based budgeting so that every agency has to justify every dollar that they spend.

Carly Fiorina

#65. Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God - or the universal woman-and-man - or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.

Sylvia Plath

#66. I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Jimmy Carter

#67. I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Paulo Coelho

#68. God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So,

John Calvin

#69. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. Did I think Adrian's action an implied

Julian Barnes

#70. Almost all gun control legislation is constitutionally fine. And if the court is right, then fundamentalism does not justify the view that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.

Cass Sunstein

#71. I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical - to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.

David Byrne

#72. Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.

Steven Soderbergh

#73. In line with international law, only the U.N. Security Council could sanction the use of force against a sovereign state. Any other pretext or method which might be used to justify the use of force against an independent sovereign state are inadmissible and can only be interpreted as an aggression.

Vladimir Putin

#74. Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Randall Terry

#75. A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#76. Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

#77. The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

William O. Douglas

#78. Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their discernment.

Bill Johnson

#79. Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you can never actually receive, constantly full of emptiness, trying to justify your twisted actions by politics and 'feel good' language.

Michael Glatze

#80. This boy was so far out of my league it was embarrassing. I found myself staring at him, trying to find some minute flaw that might justify dragging him back to my level. Finding nothing, I decided that having a dimple on only one cheek was practically a deformity.

G.J. Walker-Smith

#81. It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.

Morris Raphael Cohen

#82. Man can commit atrocities, or incite others to commit them, not because of a personality disorder, but because of his belief in ideas that provoke and justify atrocities.

Branimir Anzulovic

#83. It frequently happens that offenses are committed when the offender is not aware of it. Something he has said or done is misconstrued or misunderstood. The offended one treasures in his heart the offense, adding to it such other things as might give fuel to the fire and justify his conclusions ...

Spencer W. Kimball

#84. keeping options open seems to extract a psychological price. When we can change our minds, apparently we do less psychological work to justify the decision we've made, reinforcing the chosen alternative and disparaging the rejected ones.

Barry Schwartz

#85. Those straight-spined parishioners could justify their exhibitionism by telling themselves that they were setting an example, even educating the rest of us.

Maureen Corrigan

#86. The more exaggerated the musculature, the more it had to explain and justify itself in mounds of dead bodies.

Mark Simpson

#87. I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

Tracy K. Smith

#88. I don't have to justify its awesomeness/activeness/healthiness/usefulness to anyone, because it is MINE. Not yours.

Lindy West

#89. What I find in Aristotle is mainly a quite dull collection of generalizations, many of which seem impossible to justify in the light of modern knowledge,

Robert M. Pirsig

#90. No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

Peter Kreeft

#91. It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter - nothing can justify that sacrifice.

Timothy Ferriss

#92. 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 supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

Gary L. Francione

#93. People like to talk shit, but it's usually to justify their own apathy.

Shepard Fairey

#94. Trust your intuition. You don't need to explain or justify your feelings to anyone, just trust your own inner guidance, it knows best.

Unknown

#95. The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

Samuel P. Huntington

#96. Because Jesus came to set the captives free, life does not have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, and validate ourselves.

Preston Sprinkle

#97. If you do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals to live the life you desire, It will be worth it. I promise! But if you find some excuse to justify quitting your journey, you will regret it. This is also a promise! -gbb

Glenn Brandon Burke

#98. The immoral man always sees the moral man as immoral, just a way for him to justify his immorality.

Ricardo Derose

#99. Only the sacrifice of an innocent god could justify the endless and universal torture of innocence. Only the most abject suffering by God could assuage man's agony."208 Berger sees the brilliance of

Timothy J. Keller

#100. Many times in your life you may think you are failing, but ultimately you will express yourself and that expression will justify your life.

Irving Stone