Justification Quotes

Words are just words and nobody told these people to do anything like that... The leadership of the Christian Knights regrets the burning of the churches and regrets anybody's taken their ideas and tried to use them as justification for their actions. - Gary White

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. - Helen Rowland

Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification. - Adlin Sinclair

Will find it very odd that members of parliament, given such a compelling and strong case by police, decided to ignore their recommendation and go for a period they thought of themselves without any particular justification for it. - Tony Blair

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. - Dale E Turner

While these animals are in trouble, there is not sufficient justification to list the Puget Sound population under the ESA. - Bob Lohn

Whichever way you look at it, there is no justification for people holding on to illegal weapons and for retaining the structures of terrorist organizations, ... There is no justification for it. There is no need for it. Indeed, doing it opens the door to terrible possibilities. - David Trimble

Where is the ethic, the justification, the respect for the most basic human rights and the common sense of such policies? - Fidel Castro

When he attacks Israel, this is something the Arab world can agree upon. He has been criticized for the destruction and carnage he's causing the Muslim nation. He's looking for another justification... . Criticizing Israel sounds more politically correct. - Raanan Gissin

What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification. - Bernard Arnault