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Quotes About Justified

I swear to you the architects shall appear without fall, I swear to you they will understand you and justify you, The greatest among them shall be he who best knows you, and encloses all and is faithful to all, He and the rest shall not forget you, they shall perceive that you are not an iota less than they, You shall be fully glorified in them.
~ Walt Whitman
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
~ Charles Lindbergh
If interactive complexity and tight coupling—system characteristics—inevitably will produce an accident, I believe we are justified in calling it a normal accident, or a system accident.
~ Charles Perrow
Embracing government activism, he asserted that the public benefit fully justified the government "in making expenditures in the direction that no private enterprise could afford to go.
~ Charles W. Calhoun
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
~ Lauryn Hill
Anger can serve a useful purpose if it is justified and directed appropriately. But when it's only a substitute for self-loathing and a justification for cruelty to others, the trigger in your brain can become horribly destructive and addicted to that emotion. It's like a tornado that blows away all of your pleasure and replaces it with emotional poison.
~ lawlis frank
If members of the elite come to think that their privilege was historically justified and earned, it will be hard to persuade them to yield opportunity to others.
~ James W. Loewen
Sí; la vanidad es, en efecto, una debilidad. Pero en cuanto al orgullo, donde se dé verdadera superioridad de espíritu, estará siempre justificado.
~ Jane Austen
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
~ Cate Blanchett
Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
~ Guy Debord
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
~ Timothy S. Lane
The odds were against us, but we deserve to be where we are.
~ Steven Gerrard
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
~ Graham Chapman
If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism—no matter how certain we are that it is justified.
~ Dale Carnegie
Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make in the presence of an justified religious beliefs. – Sam Harris
~ Dan Brown
Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.
~ John Wycliffe
Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.
~ Doc Childre
Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen.
~ William Finnegan
Marshall identified the key message in these wildlife shows as being that "animals are vicious, so humans are justified in using any means to subdue them.
~ Chris Palmer
One need only posit some threat to the public tranquility and any action can be justified. All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Anger can be a useful emotion; it's built into our genetic code to help with self preservation. But it can also be destructive, even when it is justified.
~ Michael Hayden
I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.
~ Portia de Rossi
La fobia es un pretexto que se ha inventado el organismo para ocultar un terror verdadero, justificado, pero que la mente se empeña en ignorar.
~ Unknown
That's kind of the point of being stealthy. And if he doesn't catch you, then you're not doing anything wrong, are you?" That sounded true. That sounded very true!
~ Tui T. Sutherland