Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“All the time I feel I must justify my existence.”
—Prince Charles (b. 1948)

“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)