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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism. -- Mahmoud Darwish
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. -- May Sarton
No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people. -- Albert Camus
Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. -- Dag Hammarskjold
I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home. -- Robert Plant
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. -- Leon Trotsky
It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism. -- Manmohan Singh
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. -- Georges Bernanos
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. -- Matt Taibbi
The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. -- Ralph Chaplin
If you make a trilogy, the whole point is to get to that third chapter, and the third chapter is what justifies what's come before. -- Peter Jackson
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery. -- Jonah Goldberg
The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing. -- George Carey
The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. -- Leo Tolstoy
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it. -- Thomas Francis Meagher
People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live. -- Kendrick Lamar
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. -- Arthur Koestler
I think that a good movie creates its own world, and that world needn't refer to anything that's real. If it's consistent, if it's entertaining, if it's interesting, it justifies its being there. -- Christopher Walken
There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do. -- Noam Chomsky
People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means. -- Alex Gibney
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 secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. -- Louis D. Brandeis
The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining Guantanamo detainees, whose cases will now be evaluated internally and reviewed by the courts. -- Noah Feldman
While the West tries to turn its civilization into cultural variety hour, Islam tries to turn Muslim lands into a cultural monolith. The same West that justifies the rap culture thinks that every Muslim terrorist bombing is an expression of economic angst or social alienation. -- Ben Shapiro
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. -- Jules Verne
It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter. -- Henry B. Eyring
The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we - and the young, particularly - spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation. -- Douglas Rushkoff
War justifies everything. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism, -- Mahmoud Darwish
The result justifies the deed. -- Ovid
Hunger justifies the middle classes. -- Julien Torma
the ends justifies the means -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our distrust of another justifies his deceit. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'. -- Glen Duncan
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything. -- Glenn Greenwald
If the end is right, it justifies the beans! -- Stephen Sondheim
God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin! -- Joyce Meyer
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means. -- Emily Giffin
The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth . -- Jorge Luis Borges
I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment. -- Mallory Ortberg
What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies. -- Thomas Cranmer
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none. -- Henry Fielding
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. -- Max Frisch
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. -- Rudyard Kipling
All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love. -- Marquis de Lafayette
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone. -- John Calvin
Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies? -- Masta Killa
The end never justifies the means because there is no end; there are only means. -- Penn Jillette
Finally, the Witch justifies her existence by going in search of complete and limitless pleasure. -- Paulo Coelho
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. -- John Calvin
You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it. -- Jared Diamond
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result. -- Sebastian Fitzek
The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.... -- Saul Alinsky
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. -- Seneca the Younger
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In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. -- Cesar Chavez
History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything. -- Paul Valery
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means. -- Elie Wiesel
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end. -- John Dewey
One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era. -- Ken Livingstone
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. -- Dar Williams
Advertising justifies its existence when used in the public interest-it is much too powerful a tool to use solely for commercial purposes. -- Howard Gossage
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities. -- David Heinemeier Hansson
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. -- Isidore of Seville
I believe the sovereign God of the universe justifies us freely, and then we are called to run with him in sanctification. -- Matt Chandler
I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. -- Max Lucado
The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival. -- Margaret Haddix
Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action. -- John Stuart Mill
I don't think there's anything, any threat out there today that anyone can point to, that justifies placing an entire population under mass surveillance. -- Edward Snowden
Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems. -- Michel Foucault
The biggest challenge is not coming up with the stunt, the biggest challenge is designing a sequence around it that sort of justifies its existence. -- Christopher McQuarrie
Smartass Disciple: Master, what are you talking about? None of us understand!Master of Stupidity: Be patient! It is not ended yet. The end justifies the means. -- Toba Beta
When you love, love with with all your heart; don't have any expectations. You love because that's the only way you know how. It justifies your life. -- Rita Zahara
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest. -- Oscar Wilde
The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life). -- J. I. Packer
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule. -- Friedrich Hayek
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule. -- Friedrich Hayek
And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with. -- Nick Harkaway
Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days. -- Paulo Coelho
What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre. -- Stephen Sondheim
In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else. -- John Pilger
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. -- Thomas Huxley
See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries. -- John Bunyan
Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good. -- Helen Keller
Don't expect your genius to be discovered; do what you must do because it gives you joy. Don't expect your love to be accepted. Love because it justifies your life. -- Paulo Coelho
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone, though one is justified by faith alone, the faith which justifies is never in fact alone. -- N. T. Wright
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Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste. -- Bill Watterson
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. -- Eric Hobsbawm
Picking on another person in their mind justifies and makes their stature higher. People do it interracially. It's amazing how every race, every culture seems to have a culture they pick on. -- Rib Hillis
There is no question that Israelis - indeed, all concerned Jews - have to continue to work out a Jewish public philosophy that truly justifies a Jewish state in the land of Israel. -- David Novak
Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind. -- John Lancaster Spalding
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. -- Bill Maher
And any declaration of faith that does not result in a changed life and good works is a false declaration. It is faith alone that justifies. But faith that justifies can never be alone. -- Greg Laurie
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. -- H. G. Wells
In a world where authenticity increasingly is in focus, consumers are seeking more than brands who focuses on revenue - consumers want to support brands with a purpose - one that justifies an emotional engagement. -- Martin Lindstrom

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