Best 66 quotes in «justified quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences.

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show, whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There are no justified resentments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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

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

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.

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