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Quotes About Justify

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
~ A. E. Housman
Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
~ A.E. Housman
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
~ Alveda King
She understood that the Republic faced desperate times. She just wondered how many desperate measures that could justify. Somehow it seemed an affront to the Force to do this to fellow humans, even if they seemed remarkably sanguine about it.
~ Karen Traviss
Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.
~ Benjamin Clementine
Sometimes I might feel like [a movie] is kind of a weird idea and if I'm going to get enough money to execute it properly I've got to get somebody in it that is going to justify the expense.
~ Steven Soderbergh
The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them
~ Paul Dourish
But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.
~ Stacia Kane, Sacrificial Magic
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
~ Friedrich Engels
When our beliefs are false we can justify anything to prove our beliefs.
~ Debasish Mridha
He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.
~ Neal Shusterman
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
We cannot allow anything that's called 'national defense' to justify any and all spending. We need to be very, very careful that we don't overspend and say, 'Oh, that's defense,' when perhaps it isn't.
~ Grover Norquist
Don't assume it, prove it.
~ David Thomas
We can only find room for a few citations and illustrations in proof of this statement.
~ Kersey Graves
Pain may be the only reality but if mankind had any sense it would pursue the delusion called happiness. All the philosophers and poets who tell us that pain and suffering have a place and purpose in the cosmic order of things are welcome to them. They are frauds. We justify pain because we do not know what to make of it, nor do we have any choice but to bear it. Happiness alone can make us momentarily larger than ourselves.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.
~ Stifyn Emrys
The third of the biblical Ten Commandments instructs humans never to make wrongful use of the name of God. Many understand this in a childish way, as a prohibition on uttering the explicit name of God (as in the famous Life of Brian scene 'If you say Jehovah …'). Perhaps the deeper meaning of this commandment is that we should never use the name of God to justify our political interests, our economic ambitions or our personal hatreds.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Emotion makes the prospects take action now, and logic enables them to justify the purchase later.
~ Zig Ziglar
You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.
~ Johnny Hunt
It is too difficult a Grace- To justify the Dream-
~ Emily Dickinson