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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

All I want is to enter my house justified.

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.

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.

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