justify

An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in the Olympics didn't justify changing his lifelong commitment.

I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, __ have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we__e going to take this summer._ I bet if I asked your kids, they__ say that they__ rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you__e stressed out the whole time anyways.

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?

There is never a need to justify anything to others, only yourself.

The end justifies the means. Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing to get the right result.

The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.

That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

I paved the path to the very place I don__ want to be. But passing the blame off to someone else doesn__ put me any place else.

No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.

You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with whatever stupid reasoning that appeals to you. Is that rule of law - or tyranny?

The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my rejection of Him.

Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.

You can dress up greed, but you can__ stop the stench.

The __ods_ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.

There are no sides in suicide.