"If you look at the course of western history you`ll see that we`re slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we`re agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability to pursue life without having someone else`s will involuntarily forced upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don`t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn`t condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not."
- MobyI had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn`t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn`t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
- Uma Thurman"All my characters have characteristics I don`t know anything about and that`s the joy. Being able to justify their actions, and find sympathy in their wrongs, and understand their accomplishments. After Life as a House I took a while off and tried to remember who I was at the beginning of the film. You obsess, and it`s exhausting, to lose your sense of self."
- Hayden Christensen"My grandmother and my mother raised me, and we always shopped at the Salvation Army. We`d find things that were really cheap, so it`s hard for me to justify spending a lot of money on material things."
- Monica KeenaI feel like I`m always having to justify why I haven`t kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I`m like that with anybody. I don`t let anybody in. I just rely on myself.
- Robbie Williams(On refusing to grant clemency to condemned killer Stanley Tookie Williams) After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency. The facts do not justify overturning the jury`s verdict, or the decisions of the courts in this case.
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerYour own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director`s hat is only trying to justify his position.
- Gary OldmanI don`t show my face (in L.A.) very much, and so that makes it a bit more complicated for me in terms of work. They (producers) need to see you in the press, and in their face, in meetings, auditions, whatever. And as far as they`re concerned, I haven`t provided enough of an example of the kind of things that I can do, as an actor, for them to justify hiring me without me sitting down in front of them or having me dance around.
- Gillian AndersonDoesn`t the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
- Imelda MarcosYou can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, `Things happen for a reason`, there`s a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.
- Martin LandauI`m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
- Quentin TarantinoI think people could justify labeling me if they saw a pattern in what I do, but right now that`s impossible.
- Skeet UlrichThe British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
- Samuel P. HuntingtonIt was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn`t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it`s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
- Twyla TharpI can justify those two things by simply saying, when that stops happening, when we lose our credibility, the show isn`t as good.
- Aaron SorkinThe trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
- Ben KingsleyObviously, it`s very difficult to justify one action against the other when evacuees and local poor people are both in need.
- Hector GarciaI work in city government, so I know what you`re up against, but I can`t justify what you`re doing, ... Anything south of Toledo Blade is a militarized zone. No one is looking after our needs. We get quick fixes or none at all. When will our area become part of your budget? If you want this kind of money, show me. These 90 people you`re hiring, are they going to fix our roads, police our area?
- Patricia BrownI came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.
- Richard AttenboroughDictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
- Richard PerleSmall projects simply cannot justify the expense. Therefore, they will rarely happen without effective public policies in place to support them.
- Sam HallHistory is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
- Ted KoppelThere`s no way I can justify my salary level, but I`m learning to live with it.
- Drew CareyPeople will justify whatever for a good cause.
- Julie TaymorI like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.
- Dario ArgentoIf a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
- Russ FeingoldThey`ve been at that rate since the building opened in 1996. That rate really represents the rental rate it would take to justify the construction of a new downtown high-rise.
- Jamie Anne AllmanI didn`t think before that I`d done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I`m now ready to tell my story.
- Cilla BlackWork isn`t to make money; you work to justify life.
- Marc ChagallI don`t understand how we can justify the occupied territories. It serves no goal, except the political goal of Sharon within Israel.
- Chris MatthewsDon`t come in here and tell me what they were doing wasn`t wrong and try to justify what they (the board) were doing, ... Don`t go back and start defending that behavior, that will ensure that I won`t support (increased funding).
- John BoydI know it`s tough to justify, but sometimes your 20th draft pick becomes as important as your first. It`s a mistake judging an entire draft class by what the first guy does.
- Terry RyanSo the president and the governor say don`t fill up. It doesn`t make any sense. You can`t justify the statement because we have to come out to make a living.
- Peter HoffmanI`m shocked, there`s nothing to justify the prices we`re paying before Katrina, however there`s a little more to justify the prices we`re paying now,
- Paul MasonI think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
- Neil SheehanIt has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community`s own work was politicized.
- Paul PillarIt has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between (Bush) policy-makers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community`s own work was politicized.
- Paul PillarDisapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.
- Harry A. BlackmunI 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.
- Jonathan DimblebyFor a small carrier, the thing that might be good with rate regulation is that it prevents larger carriers from undercutting and provides us a way to remain competitive in the marketplace. A lot of carriers don`t like it because it`s an inconvenience and costly, but if you look at it from a consumer`s standpoint we have to be able to justify our rates to our consumers and that`s the bottom line.
- Howard Lee(The alternative philosophy is best put by the president of the Law Council of Australia, John North.) The major concern is that when a government gives power to police to stop, arrest, question and detain for long periods people not reasonably suspected of a crime we have crossed into uncharted territory, ... Nothing can justify giving up such fundamental rights.
- John NorthWe have to mend our ways and remember we have a public to whom we are accountable and to whom we have to explain and justify ourselves.
- Peter MandelsonWe`re looking at increased volume, ... We could justify as many as 250 beds on the existing plot. With the land acquisition, we can provide 300 to 325 beds. This is a growing community. We`re at capacity now. We need to expand for the volume we have now so we can take care of as many of south Miami-Dade`s population as possible.
- Laura HunterWe`re looking at increased volume. We could justify as many as 250 beds on the existing plot. With the land acquisition, we can provide 300 to 325 beds. This is a growing community. We`re at capacity now. We need to expand for the volume we have now so we can take care of as many of south Miami-Dade`s population as possible.
- Laura HunterAnd malt does more than Milton can To justify God`s ways to man.
- A. AlvarezThe ends must justify the means.
- Adam SearingYou can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
- Aimee LitkaNothing can justify war.
- Alf EllertonYou shouldn`t have to justify your work.
- Allen BrownEven if certain rogue countries do things we wish nobody did, it doesn`t necessarily mean that their foolishness should justify our following suit.
- Allison Sharp