#justify

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for. ↗

— Jonathan Dimbleby

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Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. ↗

— Byron White

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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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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel. ↗

— William Gurnall

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I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

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I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

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How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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