Justify Quotes

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

People use ideas of non-duality as an escape from reality. It is very easy to say there is no winning and losing and justify the fact that you didn't do a very good job.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

Sometimes directors feel like they have to justify that hat that they are wearing they've got on as a director, and they come in and they tweak and interfere.

I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

Everyone makes moral choices that better themselves and hurt someone else along the way - and whether or not the means justify the ends. And that, to me, is universal.

The primary battle which religion must fight today is the battle to justify its own existence.

...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done.

I have clearly said we faced terrorist enemies who use Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people and we have to stop them and we will. We have to defeat radical jihadist terrorism.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.

You can justify, from a political standpoint, any type of violence you want to use.

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

People will justify whatever for a good cause.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

Now you know how I justify my addictions—if I can pay less for it than I would at Wal-Mart, I get to have it.

So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

I'm glad my name stands for the principle that everyone has the right to force the government to justify his imprisonment.

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.

Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.

When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.

Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.

Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.

Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.

My mother's love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.

The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.

What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them, attack them. Prose poems are natural fence-sitters.

The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget.

I hate cynicism. I wipe it from me. I don't like cynical people. I don't like cynical movies. Cynicism is very easy. You don't have to justify it. You don't have to fight for it.

I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.