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Quotes About Justify

I should have had the joy Without the fear to justify, —
~ Emily Dickinson
I am actually quite relieved that I didn't have to stand beside Imran Khan while he touted blasphemy laws, and his party targeted minorities. I wouldn't want to justify the indefensible.
~ Reham Khan
An action made by an unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common thought and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.
~ Even Engesland
No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.
~ Debasish Mridha
May good prevail, and justify my deed.
~ Aeschylus
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.
~ Don DeLillo
You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
People think rationally that the world really is more risky. Imagine in 2008 that investors thought there was a 10% chance we'd have a depression. That would partly justify the drop in prices.
~ Eugene Fama
Emotions also can justify acts that would otherwise be reprehensible. We are quicker to except the legitimacy of a violent response to an insult or a wrong if it is believed to have arisen spontaneously from the understandable anger that it triggered than if it is seen as the product of calculation. Revenge may be a dish that is best eaten cold, but serv­ers are more willing to accept it if it is hot.
~ Robert Jervis
Because there are so many ways to analyze the market, you will inevitably find some indicator from some method of analysis that can be used to justify holding a position. This is true for both profitable and unprofitable positions: you will keep a profitable position longer than originally intended and possibly have it turn into a loss, and you will rationalize holding a losing position far beyond what you were originally willing to lose.
~ Jim Paul
Let us create theories and think them through patiently and honestly, only to contradict them by our actions, and to justify those actions with theories that condemn our earlier theories... Let us carve out a path in life and then immediately take another contrary path. Let us adopt all the gestures and all the attitudes of something that we neither are nor want to be, nor even want to be thought to be.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
~ Arthur Miller
But at the same time, the humanist in me was always a bit troubled by the rather bleak, rather unappetizing picture the theory painted of the human condition—forever striving to justify our actions after the fact.
~ Eddie Harmon-Jones
Love lost by one moment's explicit unfairness can't be won back by trying to justify it
~ Lynne Reid Banks
Fear, I think, is the worst element of religions of all kinds. It is used to justify more fear, as well as hatred, lack of compassion, intolerance, and war.
~ Amy Tan
God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So
~ John Calvin
We occasionally hear of "righteous anger." We mean anger that is justified by circumstances. But, in a sense, all anger is righteous. That is, all anger justifies itself in the mind of the person who feels the anger. In another sense, there is no such thing as righteous anger. For no anger can really justify itself.
~ JOHN DANIEL BARRY
The judiciary perpetuates a breath of state structure. If it fails to purify and justify itself; consequently, all of its systems evince a collapse; indeed, it embraces only the destruction.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
To give yourself over to an evil is, in some measure, to pretend that what you know is wrong is right, and then, to justify yourself, you must give yourself over to it all the more.
~ Anthony M. Esolen
Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.
~ Benjamin Tucker
Prove to me that you deserved it.
~ Kristine Cuevas
You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.
~ T. Harv Eker
One man's sin does not justify another's.
~ Anne Perry