Quotes About Justification

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

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

I am aware that no man is a villain in his own eyes.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.