Justification Quotes

• We writers must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Writers
  • Escape
  • Justification

• In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Problem
  • Violence
  • Facts

• The inner change, justification, is effected at the moment of salvation. The outer change in the believer's daily walk, sanctification, continues throughout life. But the progressive work of sanctification is only fully effective when the radical, inner transformation of justification is realized and appropriated by faith.

  

  Neil T Anderson
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Change

• If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to say I want to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

  

  Thomas R. Cech
  • Study
  • Strange
  • Genes

• The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • History
  • Secret
  • Existence

• They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Doing
  • Thing
  • Justification

• There is as much vanity in self-scourgings as in self-justification.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • Self
  • Vanity
  • Justification

• I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Suffering
  • Spiritual
  • Feel

• For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • I Believe
  • Wealth
  • Social

• Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.

  

  William Carey
  • Grace
  • Salvation
  • Justification

• There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Future
  • Existence
  • Justification

• Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth Is
  • Devotion
  • Justification

• To defend something is always to discredit it. Let a man have a warehouse full of gold, let him be willing to give away a ducat to every one of the poor - but let him also be stupid enough to begin this charitable undertaking of his with a defense in which he offers three good reasons in justification; and it will almost come to the point of people finding it doubtful whether indeed he is doing something good. But now for Christianity. Yes, the person who defends that has never believed in it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Christianity
  • Defense
  • Believed

• Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

  

  William J. Seymour
  • Justification
  • Simultaneous
  • Pardoned

• She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Existence
  • Laugh
  • Tea

• To find the right plan is just as hard as looking for its sound justification.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Plan
  • Justification

• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

  

  Stephen Harper
  • War
  • Justification
  • Mass Destruction

• The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Real
  • Models
  • Data

• Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Action
  • Needs
  • Justification

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