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)

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