Quotes of: Justify Keyword

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Augustine Birrell

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

Portia de Rossi

Above all, it seems to me wrongheaded and dangerous to invoke historical assumptions about environmental practices of native peoples in order to justify treating them fairly. ... By invoking this assumption [i.e., that they were/are better environmen...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

The disobedience if Eve in the Genesis story has been used to justify women's inequality and suffering in many Christian traditions. Thus, what is understood as women's complicity in evil leads much traditional theological reflection on suffering to ...

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

Libertarian opponents of anarchy are attacking a straw man. Their arguments are usually utilitarian in nature and amount to "but anarchy won’t work" or "we need the (things provided by the) state." But these attacks are confused at best, if not dis...

N. Stephan Kinsella

[Barbara is upstairs, watching Sheba and Richard having a blazing row about her affair with Steven Connolly] Barbara Covett: [voiceover] By the time I took my seat in the Gods, the opera was well into its final act. Richard Hart: You're his teacher! ...

Notes on a Scandal

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

On Christian Liberty

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference

Besh grinned. “Only a fool would choose to justify himself by likening his actions to those of a bigger fool.

The Horsemen's Gambit

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.

Osman Baydemir

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

Bill Mumy

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my health justify the risks.

The Rosie Project

To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.

Rise of the Sun Prince

Don’t rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument; your choice of words may unmake what you made.

Shaping the dream

I hate organized religion. I hate that people use it to justify their crappy, bigoted beliefs.

Saving June

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

Splitter

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Tales of Belkin

But I hasten to finish my story. Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

George Eliot

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

Stormie Omartian

101 Reasons why its great to be a woman: We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.

Summersdale Publishers