Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

“And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“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)