Justify Quotes

• Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.

  Melissa Farley

  Climate, Social, Prostitution

  "Attitudes Toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths". Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 32, issue 9, Abstract, onlinelibrary.wiley.com. September 2002.

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• Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophy

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• A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Distance, Men, Civilization

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• If the end does not justify the means - what can?

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Doe, Ends

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophy, World, Today

  "The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

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• The end doesn't justify the means.

  Ovid

  Inspirational, Mean, Ends

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• The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

  Leon Trotsky

  Freedom, Philosophy, Mean

  "When It Comes to Personal Transformation, Could the Ends Be the Means?" by Russell Bishop, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that's impossible.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Thinking, People, Patterns

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• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

  Ted Koppel

  History, Historical, Tourism

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• A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

  Man Ray

  Art, Needs, Creator

  "Self Portrait". Book by Man Ray, 1963.

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• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Apology, Years, Good Movie

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• Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Islam

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• Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.

  Daniel S. Greenberg

  Love, Sex, Self

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• It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Freedom Of Speech, Censorship In Books

  Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”

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• Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Work, Labor Day

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• The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

  John Flavel

  Christian, Jesus, Law

  John Flavel (1996). “The Method of Grace: How the Holy Spirit Works”, p.264, Hartland Publications

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• We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  New Year, Philosophy, Failure

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• I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Family, Fighting, Opportunity

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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• Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

  Richard Perle

  Military, Police, Secret

  Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.

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• You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.

  Joseph Sugarman

  Logic, Emotion, Sells

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• If you wait until circumstances justify your thinking pleasant thoughts, you are likely to wait forever.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Happiness, Thinking, Waiting

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.75, Penguin

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• Facts are almost irrelevant to most people. We make decisions based on emotion and then justify them later with whatever facts we can scrounge up in our defense.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  People, Decision, Defense

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Distance, Greatness, Average

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.266, Library of America

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• But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Ends, Determine

  "Complete Essays: 1939-1956".

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• The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.

  John Dewey

  Mean, Desire, Used

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Steven M. Cahn (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1938-1939”, p.321, SIU Press

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