Justified Quotes


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

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

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.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he if he had the power would be justified in silencing mankind.

I love the conflict of relationships on 'Justified.'

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

On 'Justified' we're driving all around Southern California trying to find a location that we can call Kentucky.

My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in like a day. And that is such a funny amazing show.

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

It's kind of weird because 'Saint George' shoots on the exact same lot that 'Justified' did and actually the exact same soundstage too.

I honestly love nothing better than digging into a really good serialized show whether it's 'Breaking Bad' or 'Game of Thrones' or 'Justified.'

The good thing about being on a show like 'Justified' is that you stick to the premise but not necessarily every single word that's on the page.

The beauty of the characters on 'Justified' is that all the human beings that are written are all flawed. Even with the good guys you see darkness surface.

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.

Justified by the war on drugs the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970 the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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

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

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

I constantly think I'm a fraud - that this success is not warranted or justified.

I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.

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

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

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

Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist male-dominated and patriarchal world.

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

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

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

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

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

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified finally by their behavior.

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

There may be thousands of principles of Marxism but in the final analysis they can be summed up in one sentence: Rebellion is justified.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

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.

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.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

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.

Knowledge is justified belief.

We are justified by faith.

There are no justified resentments.

Successful crimes alone are justified.

their anxiety justified or not was genuine

The Electoral College is justified and right.

I think violence can never be justified.

The artist is justified by his art.

Any attack on any lie is justified.

Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35

All I want is to enter my house justified

Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

Unfaithfulness to the marriage vow can never be justified.

Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.

Having been unable to strengthen justice we have justified strength.

All men think they're fascinating. In my case it's justified.

The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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

The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

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

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

A lot of police shootings are justified but many others are not.

My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Yes there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

Writing like drawing is an art and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan transgression seems natural innocent even justified.

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

In my religion I really cannot think of cases where violence is justified.

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

If TV were only an invention to broadcast soccer it would be justified.

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

Are you living to justify yourself or are you living because you are justified?

Male supremacy is centered on the act of sexual intercourse justified by heterosexual practice.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

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

Of course the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence

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

When even despair ceases to serve any creative purpose then surely we are justified in suicide.

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

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

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

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

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

For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified.

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

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

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

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

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

If you are justified you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.

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

Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good but through results that have tangible consequences.

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

Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die an expression of intensity is justified.

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

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

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality.

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

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

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

The law sends us to Christ to be justified and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

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

All forms of madness bizarre habits awkwardness in society general clumsiness are justified in the person who creates good art.

In my case self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

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

Marriage or non-marriage good or evil learning or ignorance any of these is justified if it leads to the goal.

Because I believe that abortion is murder I also believe that force is justified in an attempt to stop it.

This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.

I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was to him entirely justified.

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

What you do to prevent further felonious assault as long as the felon is still capable of action is justified.

Beauty (was)a gift which in the eyes of New York justified every success and excused a certain number of failings.

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

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

At its heart legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

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

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

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle justified by exemplary conversation.

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

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

I don't know if winning at any cost is wrong or not. There are times I've thought that the end justified the means.

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

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

We are justified not by giving anything to God --what we do --but by receiving from God what Christ hath done for us.

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.

I was raised in California so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats!

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

War is a grim cruel business a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

People are affected by what they see hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

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

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is correct yourself. Otherwise go on about your business.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

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

Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.

The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women and the discourse of feminism was specifically invoked.

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God again and again.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively and is justified in believing in his own existence.

The conviction that all men are equal by reason of their natural dignity has been generally accepted. Hence racial discrimination can no longer be justified.

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.

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!

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.

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.

A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son then how do you send someone else's?

Wherever morality is based on theology wherever the right is made dependent on divine authority the most immoral unjust infamous things can be justified and established.

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.

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Sibelius justified the austerity of his old age by saying that while other composers were engaged in manufacturing cocktails he offered the public pure cold water.

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.

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.

It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom they are justified before our conscience and before our God.

You think the pope is mad that [Donald] Trump said Two Corinthians instead of "second"? Get this. Pope Francis just said that contraception can be justified now.

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.

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Desires should never be justified ' Tehol said wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

When I was young I thought banks were there to protect the assets of people who had justified concerns because of their experiences under communism for example.

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.

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.

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...'

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.

[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.

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad a husband this and that but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument the media has the last word and most times your argument is not justified.

I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn't justified in some countries.

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.

...secession like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms...

As long as anger paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

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.

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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.

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.

By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified not because I am sorry for my sin not because I have repented but because of what Jesus has done.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science it is not even justified by a superficial view.

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.

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.

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.

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease which had been authorized by Washington that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

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".

What women have done is developed a survival mechanism and it's a fascinating one and it's been effective and justified in my opinion. That is the ability to manipulate men sexually.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary heroic and even worse as the fulfillment of God's will.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

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.

I was a slave to something he believed to be silly and superstitious: the idea that all life was worth defending and that nothing justified surrender to the forces of destruction.

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.

Society itself is an accident to the spirit and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience.

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

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?

People say mental hospitals are for the patients in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

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.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.

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.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation his religion his race or his holy cause

How ever sugarcoated and ambiguous every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power whether that right is justified by sex race religion or all four.

I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes then there are times when it is justified.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation his religion his race or his holy cause.

My future will not copy my fair past I wrote that once. And thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn't have to be justified by some political point of view and it's kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

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.

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.

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.

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.