Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.”
—Jean Marzollo (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)

“Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)