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)

“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)