#justification

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#art #aspires #carry #condition #every

Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior. ↗

— Jessica Walter

#desperate #justification #kinds

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#faith #justification #learned #man #science

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. ↗

— Thomas R. Cech

#better #ever #gene #good #had

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#committee #economic #find #hearts #industrial

But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It's fun to give these people voices. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#actions #character #commonplace #convincing #each

I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#fair #had #i #i wish #informed

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#explanation #justification #reason

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence. ↗

— Gustav Krupp

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