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.
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued. . . The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
What amazes me is how far some people will go to justify their behavior to themselves, just to preserve that self-perception.
I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
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?
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.
Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.
I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
The U. S. has perverted the U. N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. . . . The U. S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.
It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.
If the ends don't justify the means, then what does?
You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.
People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?