Pragmatically Justified Quotes

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

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. ~ Robert A. Dahl

There are no justified resentments. ~ Wayne Dyer

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

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

No state more extensive than the minimal state can be justified. ~ Robert Nozick

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

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

All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong. ~ Lance Conrad

I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically. ~ Andrei Tarkovsky

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. ~ Lawrence Lessig

'Justified' is one of the greatest teams I've ever played for. It's just awesome. ~ Neal McDonough

Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Any attack on any lie is justified. ~ Sandra Good

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. ~ Richard Dawkins

Life doesn't need to be justified or judged. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one. ~ Johannes Rau

All I want is to enter my house justified, ~ Sam Peckinpah

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety. ~ Julian Barnes

Are you not justified in feeling inferior, when you seek to cover it up with arrogance and insolence? ~ Malcolm Forbes

Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept. ~ Ansel Adams

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. ~ Graham Chapman

If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you. ~ Lewis Mumford

You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software. ~ Richard Stallman

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

Oppression has no logic
just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. ~ Gloria Steinem

Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? ~ John Stuart Mill

Although I know nothing against myself, yet I am not hereby justified,(4) because if Thy mercy were removed away, in Thy sight should no man living be justified.(5) ~ Thomas A Kempis

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

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! ~ Camille Pissarro

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. ~ G.H. Hardy

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

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned. ~ Dalai Lama

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

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. ~ Hillary Clinton

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified. ~ Boyd K. Packer

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

Resentment, anger, frustration, worry, disappointment-negative emotional states, justified or not, take a toll on your heart, brain and body. Don't let justified emotions rob your health and well-being. ~ Howard Martin

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds. ~ Bruce Schneier

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

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

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner. ~ Philip K. Dick

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

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

In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it. ~ James Madison

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head. ~ Maisie Williams

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. ~ Eric Hobsbawm

As Ernest Hemingway wrote, 'Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead ... ' ~ Christopher Flynn

Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults. ~ Mona Charen

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality. ~ Portia De Rossi

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. ~ Jeff Cooper

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead. ~ Charles A. Lindbergh

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't. ~ Paul Krugman

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

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

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war. ~ Noam Chomsky

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. ~ Benjamin Tucker

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). ~ J.I. Packer

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

Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases. ~ Aleister Crowley

Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified? ~ Timothy Keller

No-one wants to see violence of any kind on our streets, certainly not any violence that's justified by extreme nationalist ideas or that targets people because of their religion. ~ Tim Soutphommasane

Life was never going to be what she wanted it to be, and she'd decided to pragmatically lower her bar in a way that would have horrified her teenage self. ~ Claire Lombardo

The survival of their political system justified anything. The promise of a golden age where none of this brutality would exist, where everything would be in plenty and poverty would be a memory, justified anything. ~ Tom Rob Smith

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified. ~ C.D. Wright

In appropriate circumstances we are justified in using humans to achieve goals (or the goal of assisting animals). ~ Peter Singer

[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. ~ Glenn Greenwald

Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it. ~ Martin Luther

Pragmatically, aesthetic value can be recognized or experienced, but it cannot be conveyed to those who are incapable of grasping its sensations and perceptions. To quarrel on its behalf is always a blunder. ~ Harold Bloom

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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. ~ Christopher Durang

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

Because interrogations are intended to coerce confessions, interrogators feel themselves justified in using their coercive means. Consistency regarding the technique is not important; inducing anxiety and fear is the point. ~ Aldrich Ames

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified. ~ Noam Chomsky

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. ~ Douglas Hurd

If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends. ~ Sigmund Freud

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. ~ N. T. Wright

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified. ~ Richard Hamming

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers. ~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

Now, it is beyond a doubt that the steps by which the Lord in his mercy consummates our salvation are these, "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Rom. 8:30). ~ John Calvin

Christians are free to serve and obey God since they are loved, justified, redeemed, reconciled, forgiven, saved, and sustained to the end! ~ Ibrahim Emile

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

Margaret Thatcher was a great leader for her nation at a pivotal and a perilous time. So, I find the comparison flattering, but that's up to others to say whether that comparison is justified. ~ Carly Fiorina

No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department. ~ Walton Goggins

Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. ~ Rutherford B. Hayes

38Therefore let it be known to you, brethren, that through this Man is preached to you the forgiveness of sins; 39and by Him everyone who believes is justified from all things from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. ~ John F. MacArthur Jr.

If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole. ~ Raylan Givens Justified

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

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. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

It's easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That's America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change? ~ Michelle Obama

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. ~ J.I. Packer

Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified. Romans 8:30 ~ Beth Moore

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means. ~ Charles Dickens

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else. ~ John Pilger

One that always stings is "Grow up." And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times. ~ Thomas Haden Church

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them. ~ Bertrand Russell