Quotes with justify

  • You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

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  • Eric Hoffer There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Alexander Herzen You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bruce Friedman A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Charles III All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • C. S. Forester Although she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sawyer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Aldous Huxley But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Salman Rushdie From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
    Source: The Satanic Verses
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Hugh Reginald Haweis Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
    Hugh Reginald Haweis
    English cleric and writer (1838 - 1901)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I really hate to be put in the position of trying to justify something, a decision that was made. I'm a military guy: when a decision is made, I go along with it, whatever the manufactured controversy and criticism.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Ruth Benedict If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
    Ruth Benedict
    American anthropologist and folklorist (1887 - 1948)
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  • Bill Mumy It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Burgess Owens It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • A. E. Housman Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Mark Twain Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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