Justified Quotes

• Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

  

  Karol Mikuli
  • Emotional
  • Possessed
  • Strengthening

• Approach or come: refers not to the physical act of coming, but to the mental attitude; the heart is mentioned for sincerity. When they sincerely promise not to fight against you, do not pursue them. Remember that if they had fought against you, your difficulties would have been increased. Their neutrality itself may be a great advantage to you. So long as you are satisfied that they are sincere and their acts support their declarations of peace with you, you should not consider yourself justified in pursuing them and warring against them.

  

  Abdullah Yusuf Ali
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • Support

• There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Action
  • Justified
  • Condemned

• Since historical reconstruction is a rational process, only justified and indeed possible if it involves the human reason, what we call history is the mess we call life reduced to some order. pattern and possibly purpose.

  

  Geoffrey Elton
  • History
  • Purpose
  • Reconstruction

• As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Reason
  • Find
  • Actor

• All I want is to enter my house justified.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • House
  • I Want
  • Justified

• Justified is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Justified
  • Obeyed
  • Sinned

• Faith is believing things by definition, which are not justified by reason. If it were justified by reason, it wouldn't be faith. It would just be ordinary belief. It's something you can't prove. That's what faith is, believing something you can't prove.

  

  Colin McGinn
  • Reason
  • Belief
  • Prove

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

  

  William Jenkyn
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Justified

• The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.

  

  Robert Zubrin
  • People
  • Speech
  • Affordable

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

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Members

• 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.

  

  George Jung
  • Evil
  • Pot
  • Heroin

• Simblefield, whose ability to camouflage his ignorance was held in well-justified contempt by the rest of the form.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Ignorance
  • Ability
  • Justified

• Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • War
  • inspirational
  • Justified

• As Paul argues, it is the righteousness of God that is revealed in the law, and this condemns us all (Ro 1:18 - 3:20), while the gospel reveals the righteousness from God, namely, that we "are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Ro 3:24).

  

  Michael Horton
  • Jesus
  • Christ
  • Grace

• If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • War
  • Justified

• The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no party has a right to compel him to contribute to the support of doctrines, which do not meet his approbation. The rate-payer may as reasonably argue, that no one is justified in forcing him to subscribe towards the maintenance of persons, whom he does not consider deserving of relief.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Support
  • Party
  • Charity

• The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

  

  Tony Blair
  • War
  • Resolution
  • Justified

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