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)

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

“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)