“Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.”
Mark Twain
“...When you have established that one alternative is good and the other is evil, there is no justification for the choice of a mixture. There is no justification ever for choosing any part of what you know to be evil.”
Ayn Rand
“Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't”
Oskar Shindler
“There is only one justification for having sinned, and that is to be glad of it”
Henry Louis Mencken
“An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.”
C.S. Lewis
“There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.”
Martin Luther
“There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.”
Robert M. Hutchins