#justify

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#justifies #justify #long #may #means

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#could #digital #digital world #failure #fee

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

#everything #existence #give #judgment #justify

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. ↗

— Bruce Jay Friedman

#attractive #behavior #code #dishonorable #friend

Why tinker with the plain truth that we hurry the darker races to their graves in order to take their land & its riches? Wolves don’t sit in their caves, concocting crapulous theories of race to justify devouring a flock of sheep! “Intellectual courage”? True “intellectual courage” is to dispense with these fig leaves & admit all peoples are predatory, but White predators, with our deadly duet of disease dust & firearms, are examplars of predacity par excellence, & what of it? ↗

— David Mitchell

#justify #predators #courage

...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#means-justifying-the-ends #profound #religion #sublime #imagination

Intelligence is not for justifying the lack of discipline; rather, good discipline is the enhancer of God-given intelligence. ↗

— Damon Thueson

#god #intelligence #justify #intelligence

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

#justice #means-justifying-the-ends #society #justice

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#bad #body #contact #european #five

There are so many things a large intelligence espionage organization can do to justify its existence, that people can get promotions for, because it could result in results. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#could #espionage #existence #get #intelligence