A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Bruce Jay Friedman

A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
Prince Charles

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.
Neil Gaiman

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. Housman

And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
Alfred Edward Housman

Anderson's muckraking is one of debatable ends constantly used to justify questionable works.
Thomas Griffith

As many will remember, a respected Army Corps economist filed a whistleblower complaint about the Corps' use of faulty data to justify lock and dam expansion.
Ron Kind

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
Ralph Steadman

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.
Kenzaburo Oe

Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
Randall Terry

Clients do not expect the infrastructure to be any less reliable just because the service is being delivered from an offshore location; thus, the uptime requirements justify the expense.
Sanjay Kumar

Could anything justify the extermination of civilians on such a scale?
Wilfred Burchett

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
Richard Perle

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
Harry A. Blackmun

Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
Imelda Marcos

Even if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn't necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
Leon Kass

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Friedrich Engels