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Quotes About Justifies

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
Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time. Anyway, rudeness is relative.
~ Gavin de Becker
Safety is the preeminent concern of all creatures and it clearly justifies a seemingly abrupt and rejecting response from time to time.
~ Gavin de Becker
Our distrust justifies the deceit of others.
~ la rochefoucauld viii
Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.
~ Glenn Greenwald
Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.
~ Henry Fielding
When a holy was is declared, the end justifies any means to those crusaders.
~ Colleen Gleason
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.
~ le guin ursula k vii
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
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
~ Oscar Wilde
The war is just when the intention that causes it to be undertaken is just. The will is therefore the principle element that must be considered, not the means... He who intends to kill the guilty sometimes faultlessly shed the blood of the innocents...' In short, the end justifies the means.
~ Henry Kissinger
When we had no means, we said the end justifies the means. Now that we have no ends, we say the means justify the end. Neither is immoral. What is entirely immoral is that there is no longer any contradiction between the two: ends and means have become indifferent to one another. They are quite simply no longer of the same order.
~ Jean Baudrillard
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
Identifying evolutionary origins of nefarious behavior in no way justifies or excuses it.
~ David M. Buss
Tell us what complaint you have to make against us which justifies you in attempting to destroy us and the State? In the first place did we not bring you into existence? …[S]ince you were brought into the world and nurtured and educated by us, can you deny in the first place that you are our child and slave, as your fathers were before you?
~ Plato
The only virtue is vice, and the acquisition of power justifies all things.
~ Dean Koontz
Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.
~ Max Frisch