Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“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 Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)