Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.”
—Terri Apter (20th century)

“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)

“If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)