Justifying violence Quotes

“We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans”

“We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans”

“But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere.""'They?' Who are 'they?'""I don't know. Just people.""That's what the victorious claim, not the defeated; the powerful, not the powerless. 'All is fair.' 'The end justifies the means.' Is that what you believe?”

“Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.”

“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.”

“I needed freedom to really express myself. That's really what Justified is about.”

“The facts of the fossil record never justified denying poor people a healthy diet. The facts of the weather record do not justify denying poor people affordable energy. And no set of facts, whatever they may be, can justify denying scientists - or anyone else, for that matter - the right to free speech.”

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

“The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves”

“No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.”

“We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.”