In ‘Bush v. Gore,’ five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.
A lot of people ask me, ‘Are you going to do a sequel to ‘The Guest’ or ‘You’re Next?’ – those movies weren’t financially viable, so even though there are a lot of fans of it, it’d be a pretty small market we’d be appealing to. It’s got to be a big hit for you to really justify that.
If the end does not justify the means – what can?
‘Peter Pan’ is a beloved property. It’s a property that was brought to the screen many, many times before, so one has to not only justify the reasons why one might make a ‘Peter Pan’ movie in 2018, 2019 or whatever, but you also have to do justice to the source material.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.
I think comedy can be a way of sugar-coating a pill that needs to be taken, and whatever I complain about onstage, I hope I justify the negativity by using humour to make the point.
I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.
If the ends don’t justify the means, what does?
I woke up one day and thought: ‘I want to write a book about the history of my body.’ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That’s the only extravagance in my life – it’s my car.
I really feel like there have been moments of some level of creative nonfiction. I have kind of had to explain or justify some of the timeline and logistics of my life in a way that made sense to others.
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.
The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.
There are people who try to justify eating fish by saying they have no feelings. Well, you watch a fish gasping for breath as it’s pulled out of the water, and then try and tell me it has no feelings!
