Quotes About Justification

There is a category of people, generally finance academics, who, instead of fitting their actions to their brains, fit their brains to their actions. These people go back and unwittingly cheat with the statistics to justify their actions. In my business, they fool themselves with statistical arguments to justify their option selling.

You may think I'm crazy, but I don't feel like I've done anything wrong. He deserved to die, so I've decided to pretend that he just went off somewhere instead of coming home tonight.

The end doesn't always justify the means. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

The end doesn't always justify the means, dear," she said. "But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

The end doesn't always justify the means, dear, she said. But sometimes it does. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

The Vandal King's special foibles were the conclusion of treaties and armistices which he did not intend to keep, and a large piratical disregard for the need of any pretext or justification for his raids

In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things, the figure of him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity.

fictional Iraqi projects to build weapons of mass destruction. The administration used nonexistent weapons as the justification for invading Iraq, and by the time the lies were uncovered it was far too late.

Was failure to make tenure track justification for an honor killing?

The potency of myth is that it allows us to make sense of mayhem and violent death. It gives a justification to what is often nothing more than gross human cruelty and stupidity. It allows us to believe we have achieved our place in human society because of a long chain of heroic endeavors, rather than accept the sad reality that we stumble along a dimly lit corridor of disasters. It disguises our powerlessness.

I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.

You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

Democrats justify anything they do against Trump as being righteous, even if it's morally wrong or even if it's illegal, because they're so driven to stop Trump.

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

When you see evil as a thing apart from yourself over there, you can fly a plane into it or destroy it with a powerful bomb. You can justify murder. Evil is the gaze that sees evil as a thing apart from me.

Everyone in this world acknowledges as truth only what is convenient for them. They have no other way of living.

I'll explain to her, even though I don't have to. Why I did it. How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her.

While Americans tried to justify and glorify their Indian-killers, George Armstrong Custer in particular

You should demand extraordinary evidence in order to believe extraordinary claims.

Villains are always the hero in their own story. Villains always have a reason for what villainy they get up to.

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

The queer Christ is necessary because conservatives are using Christian rhetoric to justify discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people.

Running in desperate fear for your life is pretty much a righteous justification for eating junkfood.