#justifying

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

— Abraham Lincoln

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

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

— William Gurnall

#faith #gospel #justifying #naked #truths

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

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

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

— Jose Canseco

#justifying #said #tired

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

— Lee Greenwood

#bad #believe #committed #god #justifying

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

— Peter Mandelson

#decisions #explaining #justifying #often #take

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

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#centuries #civilization #course #customs #difficult