Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“We find that even the parents who justify spanking to themselves are defensive and embarrassed about it....I suspect that deep in the memory of every parent are the feelings that had attended his own childhood spankings, the feelings of humiliation, of helplessness, of submission through fear. The parent who finds himself spanking his own child cannot dispel the ghosts of his own childhood.”
—Selma H. Fraiberg (20th century)

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

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