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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
— Milan Kundera
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
— Alfred North Whitehead
I can't justify to myself working less, even if you get more out of it. Even though, in practice, it does seem it would be better for me personally.
— Chael Sonnen
She'd take these random occurrences and elevate them to oracles; she'd pretend that they were enough to justify her actions.
Or lack therof. — Jodi Picoult
Or lack therof. — Jodi Picoult
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
— Jean Racine
In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.
— Bill Maher
Never justify yourself to people who don't matter
— Steven Aitchison
You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.
— Joseph Sugarman
Banks and donors and charities claimed to have had successes in Mozambique. I suspected they invented these successes to justify their existence.
— Paul Theroux
Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
— Imelda Marcos
Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it
the only satisfactory theodicy! — Friedrich Nietzsche
the only satisfactory theodicy! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Her not objecting, does not justify him. It only shows her being deficient in something herself
sense or feeling. — Jane Austen
sense or feeling. — Jane Austen
I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves,
— Osmel Sousa
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
— Park Geun-hye
Success in one role can't justify failure in another.
— Stephen Covey
Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.
— Walter Darby Bannard
When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice
— Ayn Rand
Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
— Wilfred Burchett
Overconsumerism justifies everything.
— Toba Beta
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
— R.C. Sproul
It's disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.
— Allie Brosh
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
— Garrison Keillor
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
— Richard Perle
It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.
— Jeremy Corbyn
If the ends don't justify the means, what does?
— Saul Alinsky
My mother had to justify the fact that she had heart pills.
— Patrik Sinkewitz
I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical - to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.
— David Byrne
If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.
— Seth MacFarlane
Or it can be the reason we use to justify our anger and the sharp tones in our voices for the rest of our lives.
— Shauna Niequist
Men are inventing ideas every day to justify for themselves and others their actions and needs.
— Richard Wright
Ellen laughs, as we've both made fun of those nauseating Facebook posts that use a religious concept to justify their thinly veiled bragging.
— Emily Giffin
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
— Olive Schreiner
How could I be sleeping with this particular man ... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
— Margaret Atwood
Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.
— Alexander Pushkin
Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
One major cost of self-deception is that we use painful life experiences to justify being non-ideal versions of ourselves.
— Cortney S. Warren
They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated.
— Jonathan Edwards
I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
— Miguel Ruiz
It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The human heart is greedy; it will use religion, color, or any other excuse to justify its greed. Blame the human heart.
— Bono
Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?
— Claire McClennan
To justify God's ways to man.
— A.E. Housman
what is lost when the ends are interpreted to justify the means is always greater than what we sought to preserve with our unjustifiable actions.
— A.D. Bloom
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Trust your imagination, dreams, and hopes. Just never forget to take actions to justify your trust.
— Debasish Mridha
Incurable diseases will eventually
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. — Toba Beta
force mankind to justify
disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering. — Toba Beta
I'm still here, Ash. I can justify and explain my actions, but Maca's not and I'll never do that to him.
— Lesley Jones
He that has once concluded it lawful to resist power, when it wants merit, will soon find a want of merit, to justify his resistance to power.
— Samuel Johnson
Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.
— Gore Vidal
People fidget. They are compelled to look engaged in an activity, or purposeful. Vampires can just occupy space without feeling obliged to justify it.
— Charlaine Harris
Perform no miracles for me, But justify Thy laws to me Which, as the years pass by me. All soundlessly unfold.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Humans have a need to explain and justify everything; we have a need for knowledge, and we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know.
— Miguel Ruiz
So let's accept what must be accepted, without letting our acceptance justify inaction. Don't
— Eric Greitens
A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her.
— Henry De Montherlant
Using theory can help to justify actions and explain practice to service users, carers and society in general.
— Siobhan Maclean
To quote Helen Lewis the journalist, 'the comments on any article about feminism justify feminism'.
— Bridget Christie
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
— George Santayana
Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.
— Brittany Burgunder
Nothing can justify injustice.
— Ayn Rand
It's funny how guilty people start to question your spirituality and education only because they have nothing to say that will justify their faults.
— J.B. Albano
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
— Robert Moses
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
— Alfred Edward Housman
Humanity knows no bounds to its inhumanity when it puts systems in place that justify its injustices. Legally
— Carlos Morales
If you can justify killing to eat meat, you can justify the conditions of the ghetto. I cannot justify either one.
— Dick Gregory
I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.
— Cilla Black
To justify one's actions is easy. Acting responsibly and being accountable for actions is very difficult.
— Shubha Vilas
That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What do you bring to this enterprise to justify a third of the profits?" "Will," said Iago.
— Christopher Moore
There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.
— Margaret Atwood
Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.
— Robert Pinsky
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
— Rachel Nichols
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
I think in general the ends do not justify the means.
— Howard Dean
Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
— Arthur Miller
ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.
— Sherif Girgis
Power does not justify sin. Power is not virtue. Virtue is that which lasts inspite of power
— Sweety Shinde
In fact, I'm doubting that love exists. Maybe, as a society, we made it up to explain and justify our unhealthy desire for co-dependence." He
— Penny Reid
You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.
— Marie Lu
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone ... not even to ourselves.
— Scott Lynch
Our policy is impossible to justify on rational grounds, which is why we've started invoking national security and other shibboleths.
— James K. Morrow
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld