#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

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justified by exemplary conversation. ↗

— John Witherspoon

#conversation #exemplary #inward #justified #men

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#crime #how #justified #matter #necessary

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of myself, felt that I had such scant offerings to give to the world, that the one thing that justified my existence at all was my agony. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#character #depression #existence #felt #give

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. ↗

— Mary Garden

#being #buildings #children #evil #hence

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies. ↗

— Bill Maher

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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response? ↗

— Pat Roberts

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I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance. ↗

— Justin Sane

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