#justifying

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them. ↗

#decisions #explaining #justifying #often #take

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

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#advocate #challenge #conviction #coup #even

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. ↗

— Ron Paul

#cause #conceived #conscription #death #ever

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

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#justice #means-justifying-the-ends #society #justice

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! ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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

I'm tired of justifying what I've said. ↗