#justify

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

— Sargent Shriver

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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

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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ↗

— Albert Camus

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

— Maureen Dowd

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I'm tired of justifying what I've said. ↗

— Jose Canseco

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People who don't believe in God may have their own way of justifying some bad act they have committed. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

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To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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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

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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

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

— Albert Camus

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