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)

“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“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)