Justified Quotes

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

We are fully justified in valuing the life and person of an intended victim more highly than the life of a pernicious assailant. The attacker must be stopped. At once and completely.

All men think they're fascinating. In my case, it's justified.

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

The Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.

Men like Hitler and Stalin and their immediate lieutenants cannot plead in defence of their actions that these were justified by the accepted values of that time.

I thought heroin was evil and morally, myself, I thought that pot was okay. That it wasn't a bad thing and so therefore thought I wasn't doing a bad thing. I knew I was breaking the law but I thought that the law was wrong also. So I morally justified what I was doing.

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place.

As an anonymous participant in financial markets, I never had to weigh the social consequences of my actions ... I felt justified in ignoring them on the grounds that I was playing by the rules.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

If democracy is justified in governing the state,then it must also be justified in governing economic enterprises, and to say that it is not justified in governing economic enterprises is to imply that it is not justified in governing the state.

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept either. But I cannot justify or accept any violence at all.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.

Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse, justified by heterosexual practice.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories.

Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.

We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

If you get validation from outside, then suddenly everything you do at home is justified.

To all of us who have been charged, we all agree that we don't feel like we were doing things that we weren't supposed to, because we were told to do them. We think everything was justified, because we were instructed to do this and to do that.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

In the middle of a recession no tax increase is justified because it kills jobs, and any tax increase is a job-killing measure and should be defeated.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.