Taken out of context and given a forty-degree twist, you can use the Bible to justify almost anything.

Men will not cease to be dishonest, merely because their dishonesties have been revealed or because they have discovered their own deceptions. Wherever men hold unequal power in society, they will strive to maintain it. They will use whatever means are most convenient to that end and will seek to justify them by the most plausible arguments they are able to devise.

Even as rigorous a determinist as Karl Marx, who at times described the social behaviour of the bourgeoisie in terms which suggested a problem in social physics, could subject it at other times to a withering scorn which only the presupposition of moral responsibility could justify.

No other religion has come even remotely close to Islam in inspiring, justifying, or supporting terrorism. And yet, the progressive intelligentsia insist that none of these documented attacks have anything to do with Islam.

all technical professions have an incentive to make themselves look more complicated than they really are so that they can justify the high fees their members charge for their services.

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness—for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps—they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of—and justify—as a racial war

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

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

A basis of physical science no more justifies dogmatism than a metaphysical basis does.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

There is nothing more pathetic and futile than a general who lives long enough to explain a defeat.

And karma for you is gon’ be who you end up with.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

My mother’s love for me was so great I have worked hard to justify it.