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Nothing can justify war. -- Isaac Rosenberg
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits -- Ruth Benedict
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. -- Ruth Benedict
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly. -- Ron Reagan
The primary theory embraced by the Bush administration to justify its War on Terror policies was that the 'battlefield' is no longer confined to identifiable geographical areas, but instead, the entire globe is now one big, unlimited 'battlefield.' -- Glenn Greenwald
During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology. -- Thomas P.M. Barnett
When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.' -- Alex Gibney
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance. -- Tony Judt
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. -- Pope Francis
The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this? -- Imran Khan
war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it. -- Corra May Harris
...as soon as the war was over, they had to justify what was done. -- Harry S. Truman
The two-war strategy is just a marketing device to justify a high [military] budget. -- Merrill McPeak
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. -- Franklin Pierce
Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO? -- Jill Stein
How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam? -- Pat Buchanan
Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. -- Vasily Grossman
By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction. -- Mohammad Marandi
No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war. -- John Haynes Holmes

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