Justify Quotes

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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… — Chinua Achebe
If the end does not justify the means - what can? — Edward Abbey
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to… — Tony Blair
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech… — Louis D. Brandeis
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to… — Louis D. Brandeis
In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger?… — David Cameron
If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things. — Kirk Cameron
Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. — Albert Camus
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence. — Albert Camus
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. — Albert Camus
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it. — Drew Carey
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism,… — Jimmy Carter
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. — Marc Chagall
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you… — Steven Pinker
Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out. — Mary Wollstonecraft
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated… — Oscar Arias
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… — Archibald Alexander
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy
What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify. — Henry A. Kissinger

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