If the end does not justify the means - what can?
Edward Abbey

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
Ruth Benedict

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
Bill Mumy

It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
Morris Raphael Cohen

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas Huxley

It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
Gavyn Davies

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
Twyla Tharp

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Archibald Alexander

It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
Malcolm Forbes

Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.
Daniel S. Greenberg

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

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Ralph Steadman

Nothing can justify war.
Isaac Rosenberg

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
Maureen Dowd

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
Albert Camus

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go. Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go to even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it.
Barack Obama

People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Julie Taymor

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
Sargent Shriver