Justify Quotes - Page 31

• As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Slavery, Good Things

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

  John Stuart Mill

  Liberty, Purpose, Action

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Anne of Austria (with great submission to a Crowned Head do I say it) was a B----. She had spirit and courage without parts, devotion without common morality, and lewdness without tenderness either to justify or to dignify it. Her two sons were no more Lewis the Thirteen's than they were mine.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Character, Son, Two

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.355

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• It may be objected, that I am now recommending dissimulation to you; I both own and justify it. It has been long said: Qui nescitdissimular nescit regnare: I go still farther, and say, that without some dissimulation, no business can be carried on at all.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Long, Deceit

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• Suppose you were a real estate investor with a 1/3 interest in the best apartment complex in town, the best mall, and the best office building. Would you feel like a poor, undiversified investor? No! But as soon as you get into stocks, people feel this way. Partly, people need to justify their fees.

  Charlie Munger

  Real, Office, People

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• Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, War, Mean

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• Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

  Richard Whately

  Envy, Feelings, Looks

  Richard Whately (1858). “Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion : with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution”, p.247

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• No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Deceit, Distrust

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• One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity--not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.

  Terri E Apter

  Self, Goal, Decision

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• war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

  Corra May Harris

  War, Insanity, Form

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• We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep inthe memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.

  Selma Fraiberg

  Children, Memories, Childhood

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• Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

  Frederick Buechner

  Dark, Air, People

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• Egoistical opinion that a man is the king of nature was created by the man himself, so he can justify his wrong decisions.

  Ruben Papian

  Nature, Kings, Men

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• Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

  Wendell Berry

  Rights, Justice, Defense

  "The Failure of War" by Wendell Berry, www.yesmagazine.org. November 5, 2001.

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• One effect of benefit-cost analysis is to give any respectable engineer or economist a means for justifying almost any kind of project the national government wants to justify... Exclusive reliance on benefit-cost analysis has been one of the greatest threats to wise decisions in water development.

  Gilbert F. White

  Wise, Mean, Government

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• I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement?

  Albert Wynn

  Military, Thinking, Serious

  "Politicians Regret, Reflect On Iraq War Vote". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.

  Steve Earle

  Space, Doubt, Mind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. October 8, 2007.

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• Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

  George Clooney

  Hurt, Mean, Choices

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• The truth is that the terrorists are motivated by an ideology. It has nothing to do with what we do. They will give you all the excused to justify their terrorism. They will blame the victim. But the truth is that they are doing all these killings because they are waging Jihad. They will continue killing us until we submit and surrender. What they want is establishment of Khalifat worldwide.

  Ali Sina

  Giving, Want, Blame

  Source: myislam.dk

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• A mother is willing and capable of doing anything for her children. You can justify it if you do something for your children, especially as a Mexican mother. I don't know about some other nationalities, but the Mexican mothers are like that. They will do anything for their children.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Mexican

  "Blake Lively & Salma Hayek Interview, Savages". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 29, 2018.

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• I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification.

  Matt Chandler

  Running, Believe, Sovereign

  Source: skyejethani.com

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• The general confusion is that our moral behavior is what justifies us before God. Most of us would never say that with our mouths but we feel that lie in our heart and believe it in our minds. You can be morally upright and not be a worshipper of Christ at all.

  Matt Chandler

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Source: www.christianitytoday.com

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• I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.

  Chael Sonnen

  Practice, Doe, Would Be

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Communism, Nazi

  Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

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