Justify Quotes

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.

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

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.

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

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.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

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.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.