#justified

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#agency #competition #distribution #economic #fair

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#case #cherished #condemns #each #justified

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results. ↗

— Caskie Stinnett

#could #dislodge #enterprise #federal #into

You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified. ↗

— E. P. Thompson

#completely #contrived #could #developed #each

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#avenging #come #comes #common #dignity

You have bigger balls than some men I know. ↗

— Carolyn Arnold

#justified #madison-knight #men

The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#been #effort #had #i #justified

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law. ↗

— Kurt Huber

#breaks #criticism #each #every #freedom

I was raised in California, so this whole New York winter thing is completely new for me. I've already justified buying seven coats! ↗

— Blake Lively

#buying #california #coats #completely #i

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#boring #did #eating #eden #garden