Quotes of: Justify Keyword

Justifying a fault doubles it.

French

The end justifies the means.

Traditional

The meaning of our lives is to justify where our bosses spent their budget.

Budget Justified The Waste Fraud and Abuse of Government Workers

We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot b...

Gary L. Francione

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

A Mathematician's Apology

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

Their Morals and Ours

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Benjamin Tucker

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

Ruth Benedict

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Perle

To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

The Glass Palace

An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Peter Singer

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

John Stuart Mill

Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.

Will Love Justify Everything?: Does Love Overcome the Injustices of Life?

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Samuel Richardson

Science is a form of arrogance control.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

We are all subjected to two distinct natures in the same person. I myself have suffered grievously in that way.

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of just...

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about m...

Patrick Carney