#justify

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice. ↗

— Randall Terry

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As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion. ↗

— Ron Kind

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People will justify whatever for a good cause. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.  ↗

— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#means-justifying-the-ends #moral-courage #courage

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong! ↗