Top 100 Quotes About Justifies
#1. The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#2. The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining Guantanamo detainees, whose cases will now be evaluated internally and reviewed by the courts.
Noah Feldman
#3. Custom is the lord of everything,
of mortals and immortals king.
High violence it justifies,
with hand uplifted plundering.
Pindar
#4. 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
#5. If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#6. You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Goals justify the effort they demand at the outset, but later it is the effort that justifies the goal.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.
Thomas Cranmer
#19. Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
Max Frisch
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#24. Any state that justifies and defends the use of torture claims for itself special rights over any other consideration.
Stephen Alford
#25. Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
Emily Giffin
#26. 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
#27. It is a struggle for the minds of the people ... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.
Manmohan Singh
#28. 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
#29. 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
#31. 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
#32. To some people, it's not the end that justifies the means. It's the process that they're after, ( ... )
C.M. Stunich
#33. Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Eric Hobsbawm
#34. No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
Saul David
#35. No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.
Albert Camus
#37. When a holy was is declared, the end justifies any means to those crusaders.
Colleen Gleason
#38. 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
#39. After investigating the government for more than two decades and authoring books on its secret programs, it's been my experience that the government does whatever the hell it wants, whenever the hell it wants, and justifies it later.
Anonymous
#40. I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
Max Lucado
#41. It is thoroughly Scriptural and right to say "faith alone justifies." But it is not equally Scriptural and right so say "faith alone sanctifies.
J.C. Ryle
#42. In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.
Albert Camus
#43. Beware of precise plans by government. Let government predict: it makes them feel better about themselves and justifies their existence.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb
#44. Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Are you fighting the Black Thing?" Meg asked. "Oh, yes," Aunt Beast replied. "In doing that, we can never relax. We are called according to His purpose, and whom He calls, them He also justifies. Of course we have help, and without help it would be much more difficult.
Madeleine L'Engle
#46. Christ justifies no one whom he does not also sanctify.
Kevin DeYoung
#47. Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes.
Howard Gossage
#48. Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.
Michel Foucault
#49. See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands,
And justifies himself with lifted hands.
Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes,
Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries.
John Bunyan
#50. If it's anything that's going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don't think [the end] justifies the means ... Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can't really address that.
Ingrid Newkirk
#51. The blood of Christ justifies and saves us ... The word justification means just as if you had never sinned.
Billy Graham
#52. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.
Gary Hopkins
#53. The result justifies the deed.
Ovid
#54. The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
Ralph Chaplin
#55. The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.
Matt Chandler
#57. By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history.
Carl Sagan
#58. Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
Glenn Greenwald
#59. Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty
What justifies the homicide when he dies?
Masta Killa
#60. Every end justifies the means? - No! The end justifies all the means? - No! Every end justifies all the means? - No, never!" - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel
Preston Fleming
#61. Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!
Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means.
Toba Beta
#64. Violence just hurts those who are already hurt ... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
Cesar Chavez
#65. Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.
Bill Maher
#66. The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth .
Jorge Luis Borges
#67. More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Rudyard Kipling
#68. But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.
Aldous Huxley
#69. True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
May Sarton
#70. I imagine that being wanted is the greatest feeling. A feeling that solidifies your stay in this life, justifies it.
Tarryn Fisher
#71. Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.
Carol Loomis
#73. Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
Glen Duncan
#74. Exitus Acta Probat---the outcome justifies the deed.
Billy McCoy
#75. In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.
John Pilger
#76. God justifies the ungodly. This means there really is hope for people like us.
Paul David Tripp
#77. Another of Madiba's great lessons: you can have a vast difference of opinion with someone but that never justifies disrespect.
Zelda La Grange
#78. Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
Oscar Wilde
#79. I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
Elie Wiesel
#80. Fear festers in the imagination. It's not fear's fault. That's just the way it's made. Nightmares breed. Allies become enemies. Subversives are everywhere. Paranoia justifies any persecution, and privacy is a luxury when the Reds have the bomb.
Lauren Beukes
#81. Overconsumerism justifies everything.
Toba Beta
#82. As soon as jealousy is discovered, it is regarded by the person who is its object as a challenge which justifies deception.
Marcel Proust
#83. As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.
Oscar Wilde
#84. People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.
Kendrick Lamar
#85. The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means ...
Saul Alinsky
#86. I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.
Mallory Ortberg
#87. I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything
Vladimir Nabokov
#88. When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.
Henry A. Kissinger
#90. Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.
Jonah Goldberg
#92. It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.
N. T. Wright
#93. The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
George Carey
#94. Political opposition ... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
Arthur Miller
#95. The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
John Dewey
#96. Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? (Rom. 8:33-34a).
R.C. Sproul
#97. The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
#99. I do not know whether God exists, but I know that I have nothing to gain from being an atheist if he does not exist, whereas I have plenty to lose if he does. Hence, this justifies my belief in God.
Blaise Pascal
#100. It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
John Calvin
