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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
If I am here it is because the club believes in my job and it is my obligation to justify the quality of my job.
Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
I stand by the stuff I say, even the really stupid stuff. I'll find a way to justify it.
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.
As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must never be used to justify the subjugation of women.
I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.
But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
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.
The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.
A man should take to himself no discomfort from an opinion expressed or implied by his adversary, but it is difficult, and oftentimes humiliating to attempt to justify the kindness of one's friends.
An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.
Everybody has a capacity for a happy life. All these talks about how difficult times we live in, that's just a clever way to justify fear and laziness.
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
Offending someone's religious sensibilities can never justify a violent response. There are no 'but' qualifiers, and the sooner that this lesson is internalized, the rosier our future will be.
Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
I've dealt with this forever: the younger woman that married the wealthier, older man. I mean, I'm tired of having to justify my 20-year marriage.
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
We justify the inequalities by saying some people are just better and smarter than others and the strong should survive and the poor can die off.
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
I couldn't really justify playing for money, and I think what I wanted to achieve put me at too great a risk, so I just decided on another profession.
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.
The book tour is a strange institution. You are wheeled about to explain your book and even to justify it.
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
There is nothing more 'elitist' than thinking our palate
pleasure can ever justify a second of suffering or
a single death. Please go vegan.
We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.
The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.
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.
I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.
Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.
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!'
I feel that I deserve to hear just some words to justify the actions of an organization that I have honored and promoted every day of my nearly 30-year existence in it.
We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.
For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.
Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.
A four-year-old should have no self-esteem, and for good reason. What could he have possibly accomplished in his life to justify esteeming oneself so highly?
If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.
You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
