#justify

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#criticism #culture #especially #in the past #iran

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. ↗

— Richard Perle

#external #forces #internal #justify #military

The ends must justify the means. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#justify #means #must

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him. ↗

— Man Ray

#enthusiast #him #justify #needs #only

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? ↗

— Ron Reagan

#around #awful #floating #had #i

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#before #confidence #differences #extension #fervently

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#anything #defence #fight #goes #justify

Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense. ↗

— Sanjay Kumar

#because #being #clients #delivered #expect

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#greater #justify #nothing #requires #rule

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#exist #existence #far #go #happens