#justify

People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

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The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

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You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way. ↗

— Martin Landau

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...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

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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

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The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror. ↗

— Tony Blair

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We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

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Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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