Justified Quotes

• Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Garden, Eden, Apples

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore - they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve.

  Bruce Eckel

  Impact, Order, Class

  "Calling Go from Python via JSON-RPC". www.artima.com. August 27, 2011.

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• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Military, War

  Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (2012). “Hemingway on War”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Doctors, Data, Wish

  "Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes". Book by Andy Rooney, 2004.

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• Good things happen to those who hustle.

  Anais Nin

  Positivity, Nfl, Hustle And Bustle

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• No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Men, Evil

  In Works, Memorial edition (1925) vol. 15, p. 388 "Latitude and Longitude among Reformers"

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• The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

  George Washington

  Veterans Day, Military, War

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• From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

  Gloria Steinem

  Add, May, Violence

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

  Sam Kinison

  Mad, Rage, Reason

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• There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Action, Humans, One Time

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears, declaring openly to Christ your thoughts and deeds, so that you may be justified.

  Andrew of Crete

  Religious, Jesus, Rain

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• Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Circumstances, Suppression, Bloody

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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

  Aleister Crowley

  Would Be, Done, Calm

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Joy, Existence, Bases

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2002). “Jean-Paul Sartre: Basic Writings”, p.235, Routledge

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

  Anurag Kashyap

  Home, Validation, Ifs

  "Cannes 2012: Anurag Kashyap on 'Gangs of Wasseypur' (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 31, 1969.

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• For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  World, Existence, Justification

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.163, Vintage

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• Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

  Amity Shlaes

  Law, Foundation, Majority

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

  Robert Nozick

  States

  "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" by Robert Nozick, (p. 297), 1974.

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Achievement, Enlightenment, Thinker

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.72, Vintage

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• Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Art, Writing, Drawing

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• You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Hate, Men, He Man

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.499

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• We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

  Graham Chapman

  Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Resentment, Worst, Feels

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• The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Facts, Impossible

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• Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Needs, Done

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