#justified

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#cherish #constitution #court #deem #deeply

Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#because #bible #every #god #hotel

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#more #place #revenge #right #right time

I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about. ↗

— Justin Timberlake

#express #freedom #i #justified #myself

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#assertions #based #capital #capital punishment #form

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. ↗

— Alice Walker

#always #anything #been #behavior #faith

While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#any #been #behave #chance #cheerful

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#any #enlightenment #faith #justified #measure

Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation. ↗

— Maria Monk

#enough #few #had #hastily #her

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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