Justified famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I think violence can never be justified.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
-- Alice Walker -
All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.
-- Bruce Campbell -
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
-- C.D. Wright -
It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
-- Camille Pissarro -
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss -
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.
-- Clifton Webb -
The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.
-- Dan Savage -
Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.
-- Daniel Pauly -
In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.
-- David Berlinski -
I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.
-- David Chang -
Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.
-- Douglas Hurd -
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.
-- Elfriede Jelinek -
The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.
-- Eric Hobsbawm -
Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.
-- G. H. Hardy -
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
-- Graham Chapman -
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
-- Guy Debord -
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
-- Iris Murdoch -
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).
-- J. I. Packer -
Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
-- Johannes Rau -
...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...
-- John Calvin -
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
-- John Flavel -
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.
-- Justin Timberlake -
A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.
-- Leon Trotsky -
You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.
-- Louis Gossett, Jr. -
To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that.
-- Lynndie England -
Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.
-- Malcolm X -
No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.
-- Meir Kahane -
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 -
Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.
-- Nelson Goodman -
I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.
-- Nelson Mandela -
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
-- Niels Bohr -
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
-- Peter Drucker -
In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals).
-- Peter Singer -
Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.
-- Richard Hamming -
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
-- Richard Stallman -
If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.
-- Robert A. Dahl -
No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.
-- Robert Nozick -
Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.
-- Robert Nozick -
Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.
-- Rudolf Hoss -
Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.
-- Sam Kinison -
Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.
-- Sheila Jeffreys -
Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.
-- Steven Erikson -
All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.
-- Wassily Kandinsky -
The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman -
We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.
-- William Jenkyn -
Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister. Georgia under President Mikhail Saakashvili pursued a rather aggressive stance, which stood in the way of its NATO membership. Given both states' unique relationships with Russia, concerns were justified that NATO membership would trigger Russia's reasonable fears of encirclement.
-- Heinrich August Winkler -
When I was young, I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns, because of their experiences under communism for example.
-- Herve Falciani -
It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.
-- Adolph Saphir -
Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.
-- Benjamin Harrison -
Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.
-- Mona Charen -
The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.
-- Ron Paul -
I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.
-- George Jung -
Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.
-- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
