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Quotes About Justified

This was not far-fetched freaking out! This was completely reasonable, justified freaking out!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified, she went on. That would make it easier for you to accept the deaths of your wife and daughters. But if good people do exist, then, however much you deny it, your life will be unbearable; because fate set a trap for you, and you know you didn't deserve it. It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness.
~ Paulo Coelho
Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.
~ Roger Ailes
Since any armed movement against an established Government can be justified only by success, strength is an important revolutionary virtue.
~ Winston S. Churchill
My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once. My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man. I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
The risks were calculated. The risks were justified. No one ever ascended a mountain without risk.
~ Liane Moriarty
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.
~ Christian de Portzamparc
Churches that should be talking about the work of Christ on the cross and the grace of God for sinners are stuck on recycled pop psychology, moral exhortation, or entertainment. But these fail to speak to the eternal question that haunts all of us: 'How do I know that I'm OK?' We all want to know we are justified.
~ Kevin DeYoung
Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified.
~ Paul Hoffman
You want to kill me, don't you? And here I thought you and your friends were so righteous. You are just as capable of evil as anyone. Perhaps more so. Yet you believe your brand of evil is justified, so long as it serves your own misguided purposes." --Saint Dane
~ D.J. MacHale
Well. I'd done pretty well, in the survival department, by assuming that my paranoia was justified. Maybe taking out an insurance policy wouldn't be a bad idea.
~ Jim Butcher
How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?
~ Simone Weil
Some people are confident because they are fools. Leonard had the look of someone who was confident because, so far, he'd never found a reason not to be.
~ Terry Pratchett
Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.
~ Bruce Feiler
Virtue is free, and as a man honours or dishonours her he will have more or less of her; the responsibility is with the chooser—God is justified.
~ Plato
one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless.
~ Dean Koontz
And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless.
~ Dean Koontz
Just to have ordinary, garden-variety human consciousness is unspeakably extraordinary. We are the luckiest of mud. No need to consider further: we'd be perfectly justified to stop right here with tears of wonder and gratitude pouring down our cheeks.
~ Unknown
Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.
~ Zac Goldsmith
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
~ Gloria Steinem
No belief, James thought, is justified by its correspondence with reality, because mirroring reality is not the purpose of having minds.
~ Louis Menand
The socialist temptation is widely described by conservatives as the temptation to live off "free stuff." But this is not so—the temptation is actually more complex. It is the temptation to annihilate one's conscience by feeling justified in living off other people's work.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Propositional knowledge is justified true belief; it is believing something that is true on the basis of adequate grounds.
~ J.P. Moreland
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