We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.
Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
I believe that even the worst people on the planet believe that they are somehow justified in their neurosis.
The immoral woman in Luke 7 has the faith to anticipate Christ's forgiveness. She can act in love with no words to justify.
I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it!
I don't think most books can be justifiably translated on screen. The film versions can't convey the right emotion, fuel your imagination or allow you to visualise every line the way books do.
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.
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
As an actor, the ambition is to play interesting characters. And in the indie genre world, the budgets are low. That allows me, as an actor, not to have a financial value behind my name, to justify me being in these bigger parts for these types of mo...
It’s disappointing to feel sad for no reason. Sadness can be almost pleasantly indulgent when you have a way to justify it.
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
A person who has gone through enough life’s grind can probably and justifiably find the true worth of anything or anyone in his or everyone’s life.
I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.
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.
A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your son, then how do you send someone else's?
The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
