Justified

Famous quotes containing the word justified:

    You who want to be justified by the law have cut yourselves off from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
    Bible: New Testament, Galatians 5:4.

    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.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    Oppression has no logic—just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.
    Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)