Justified Quotes

As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.

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

Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.

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

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

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.

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

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

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

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

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.

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

How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

Americans just want us to... not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified... Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here.

I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance.

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

Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.

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.

Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

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

It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

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!

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

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.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

If killing [animal research scientists] is the only way to stop them, then I said killing them would certainly be justified.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

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

We have seen in recent years a large increase in the number of people coming in and cases of people going back, living in Cuba, but still receiving American benefits. That cannot be justified.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone.

When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief.

The obligation to earn one's bread presumes the right to do so. A society that denies this right cannot be justified, nor can it attain social peace.

Feeling sympathy and searching for explanations isn't the same as believing that the violence is justified.

I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.