Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
When I returned to the United Kingdom, I found that I could no longer justify Islamist extremism as the antidote.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.
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 produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.
I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.
You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.
When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.
Adultery is in most cases a theft in the dark. At such moments almost every woman betrays her husband's innermost secrets; becomes a Delilah who discloses to a stranger, discloses to her lover, the mysteries of her husband's strength or weakness. What seems to me treason is, not that women give themselves, but that a woman is prone, when she does so, to justify herself to herself by uncovering her husband's nakedness, exposing it to the inquisitive and scornful gaze of a stranger.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it. . . It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.
You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.
It couldn't be an all-bad world, could it, not with birds who warble and call? Maybe that was the secret - to find the few things that made life just a fraction better, and to focus on those. Bird warbles. Peach fuzz. Puppies barking as if they're full grown dogs. Nothing great, certainly nothing to justify the rest of it, but enough to keep you going.
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
An animal has no intellectual capacity to justify or to find reasons to exist. An animal just exists because it's the natural thing to do.