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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him. -- Man Ray
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. -- Albert Camus
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. -- Albert Camus
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. -- Leon Trotsky
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin. -- Johnny Hunt
The end doesn't justify the means. -- Ovid
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. -- Marc Chagall
If the end does not justify the means - what can? -- Edward Abbey
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. -- Ted Koppel
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. -- Ralph Steadman
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. -- Daniel S. Greenberg
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. -- Friedrich Engels
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ. -- R. C. Sproul
Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. -- Reza Aslan
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. -- Drew Carey
Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence. -- Hamza Yusuf
I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible. -- Skeet Ulrich
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception. -- Christopher Golden
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
For those of you that use YOLO to justify sin: YOLO, you only live once, but then you burn in hell forever. -- Nouman Ali Khan
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
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. -- Germaine Greer
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
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves. -- Stephen Kendrick
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable. -- Edgar Ramirez
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. -- Tony Blair
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything. -- Samuel Witwer
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment. -- Dale Carnegie
Disruption' is, at its core, a really powerful idea. Everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now. It's the same way people hijacked the word 'paradigm' to justify lame things they're trying to sell to mankind. -- Clayton Christensen
I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, 'You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.' -- Steven Wright
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash. -- Dan Ariely
As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. -- Joyce Meyer
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
I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict. -- Lindsay Lohan
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. -- Chinua Achebe
Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position. -- Gary Oldman
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people. -- Walter E. Williams
I am disturbed by how states abuse laws on Internet access. I am concerned that surveillance programmes are becoming too aggressive. I understand that national security and criminal activity may justify some exceptional and narrowly-tailored use of surveillance. But that is all the more reason to safeguard human rights and fundamental freedoms. -- Ban Ki-moon
I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself. -- Noam Chomsky
I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The role I will do today has to justify the time I take away from my kids and my husband. I love them, spend a lot of time with them and love doing things for them. So to go away for three to six months, I need something equally powerful. -- Kajol
Nothing can justify war. -- Isaac Rosenberg
Listen. Don't explain or justify. -- Wayne Dyer
One mistake cannot justify another. -- Raheel Farooq
any compulsion tries to justify itself. -- Joan Didion
The ends must justify the means. -- Matthew Prior
To justify God's ways to man. -- A. E. Housman
The end must justify the means. -- Matthew Prior
The ends do not justify the means -- Seth
Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily. -- Isabel Paterson
You shouldn't have to justify your work. -- Judy Chicago
God' is an excuse to justify hate. -- Anonymous
Some heinous crimes justify the ultimate punishment. -- Barack Obama
Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it. -- Benjamin Clementine
People will justify whatever for a good cause. -- Julie Taymor
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself. -- Jean Racine
No cause can justify the abuse of human rights. -- Irene Khan
Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery. -- Manisha Sinha
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself. -- Hugh Reginald Haweis
Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself. -- Robert Greene
People will use their religion to justify virtually anything. -- Desmond Tutu
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. -- John Milton
Success in one role can't justify failure in another. -- Stephen Covey
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. -- Bertrand Russell
Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence? -- Edward Abbey
From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. -- Salman Rushdie
It's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer. -- Twyla Tharp
the ends never justify the means because IT never ends. -- Martha Gellhorn
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does? -- Robert Moses
All the time I feel I must justify my existence. -- Prince Charles
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify. -- Seth MacFarlane
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use. -- Steve Lacy
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. -- Colleen McCullough
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become. -- Lin Yutang
You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic. -- Joseph Sugarman
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. -- Henry A. Kissinger
war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it. -- Corra May Harris
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words. -- Walter Darby Bannard
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it. -- Malcolm Forbes
I think in general the ends do not justify the means. -- Howard Dean
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale? -- Wilfred Burchett
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If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it. -- Robert Heller
Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers. -- Leo Tolstoy
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. -- Sargent Shriver
Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify. -- Francis Picabia
The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves -- Haruki Murakami
Chernobyl is a theme worthy of Dostoevsky, an attempt to justify mankind. -- Svetlana Alexievich
Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing. -- Orrin Woodward
The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves. -- Haruki Murakami
Time often serves to justify a deed which seems at first unjustifiable. -- Donald P. Ryan
The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there. -- Auliq Ice
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. -- A. E. Housman
He who created you without you will not justify you without you. -- Saint Augustine
My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok. -- Tori Amos
You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay. -- Tori Amos
Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works. -- Thomas Griffith
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. -- Louis D. Brandeis
Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends. -- Jay-Z
When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it. -- Charb
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. -- A. E. Housman
Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means. -- Jimmy Carter
Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Incurable diseases will eventually force mankind to justify disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. -- Toba Beta
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. -- Leo Tolstoy
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. -- Gustav Heinemann
I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite. -- Lance Armstrong
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world. -- Stephenie Meyer
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves. -- Dallas Willard
The term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can justify. -- Cliff Asness
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified? -- Timothy Keller
The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. -- Merrill McPeak
No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. -- Edward Said
The end doesn't justify anything, because all we ever live with is the means. -- Nick Harkaway
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. -- Harry S. Truman
It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify. -- John Wesley

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