Justify

Famous quotes containing the word justify:

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

“And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“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 (1887–1948)