Top Justify Quotes
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
Ted Koppel
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
Sargent Shriver
I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
Neil Sheehan
It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp
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While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.
Ron Kind 
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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
Samuel P. Huntington
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Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
Gustav Heinemann
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How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
W. Averell Harriman
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes
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If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
Russ Feingold
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I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
Jonathan Dimbleby
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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