“The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.”
“The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.”
“No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.”
“Themselves among others, everything in its place. Justified in the world.”
“See the value of imagination. It is the one quality which Inspector Gregory lacks. We imagined what might have happened, acted upon the supposition, and find ourselves justified. Let us proceed.”
“But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they wanted it bad enough. No one was immune to that.”