#justify

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

— Randall Terry

#context #cowardice #justify #out #retreat

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ↗

— Albert Camus

#always #find #justify #lack #philosophy

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

— Robert E. Lee

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

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

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

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#attention #easier #justify #leave #many

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#apology #attempt #being #condemnation #evil