Quotes About Justification

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Wherever we've gone around the world, we've found quite significant gaps: the holy texts, no matter which one you turn to, has ambiguity in it around slavery. That, we knew, was being used as justification by slavers all over the world.

When a moment in front of me appears to be particularly special, whether it be by beauty or experience, I capture it. I usually find a reason to justify taking that photo - symmetry, or color, or contrast - and it's my hope that my photography sheds light onto what I see and do on a daily basis.

A low-water economy should rest on the principle that water be left in its natural state in the environment as much as possible. Every drop extracted must be justified. Every drop used must be recycled and reused whenever possible.

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to come, and I work on karma. I'm not going to go after somebody if I don't have a reason behind it, so as soon as there is some sort of a reason for me to do something that I need to do, then I'll do it.'

I will always find a defense for characters, and that's why it's fun playing characters that are morally ambiguous, or are at least perceived superficially as being problematic.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

I've never disliked a character I've played. I've always tried to find the humanity and the reasons for what he does.

The truth needs to explain why you are the way you are, why you did what you did.

I can't pick up the phone to everybody that doubts me and explain myself.

With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'

I believe I am entitled to a public explanation.

What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.

I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.

The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental.

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

consequences are because of the actions a person chose to take, whatever that person's reason or justification. The consequences lie with them. Not me.

Any authentically Christian system is going to have to keep off the kick of human merit and demerit and stick resolutely to a universalism of grace that overrides the subject of human works.

Faith was the excuse you used if you didn't have a good argument.

we justify all the time, effort, suffering, and years and years that we devote to something by telling ourselves and others that there must be something worthwhile and important about it or we never would have so much of our lives sunk into it.

Every additional week, month, and year created greater pressure on them to justify why they had voluntarily continued to stay in such a bad situation, which led them to stay on and on—and to conjure up more and more reasons why they ought to keep suffering rather than to cut their losses and quit their lousy jobs.