Best 66 quotes in «justified quotes» category

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

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).

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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.

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

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.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

There are no justified resentments.

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.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection.

You think the pope is mad that Donald Trump said Two Corinthians instead of "second"? Get this. Pope Francis just said that contraception can be justified now.

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.

If in some radical miracle, the Abrahamic God revealed his existence to the world, I’d accept the belief in the deity — but I still wouldn't worship it. The jealous and angry God that justified the killings of millions, sent plagues upon first borns, and abhorred homosexuals would not be worthy of my worship.

If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.

You have bigger balls than some men I know.

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

Christians are free to serve and obey God since they are loved, justified, redeemed, reconciled, forgiven, saved, and sustained to the end!

If we put faith in Christ Jesus, we are justified by faith in Christ.

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

A lot of police shootings are justified, but many others are not.

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, how do you send someone else's?

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Creation did not take millions of years. We can hardly be justified in trying to harmonize the days of creation with the extended periods of millions of years according to the reckoning of the so-called scientists.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.