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• I am not saying this to serve as a justification for the things [Pablo Escobar] did, but rather to demonstrate the context of his situation and the reason for his actions, for which only he is responsible for. I think it was very difficult for him to try to bring down the very criminal organization that he had created and by the time he wanted to stop, he was unable to.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Organization, Trying

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

  Huston Smith

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

  Edward Snowden

  President, Citizens, Movement

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I've already heard from some military commanders who feel they've been undercut by the vice president of the United States, and there's a lot of justification for their view.

  John McCain

  Military, Views, President

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• How many times have I heard in France of women who have been married for many years and the husband has had mistresses and you ask, "Why does she put up with it?" Because she loves him! Love is justification for so many things Americans would never put up with.

  Marilyn Yalom

  Husband, Love Is, Years

  "Marilyn Yalom and the Language of Lovemarilyn Yalom and the Language of Love". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 23, 2012.

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• An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Imagination, Erotic

  Herbert Read (2005). “To Hell With Culture”, p.152, Routledge

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• The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Country, Children, Destiny

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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• The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food every day. Inductivists think that the chicken had "extrapolated" its observations into a theory, and that each feeding time added justification to that theory. Then one day the farmer came and wrung the chicken's neck. This inductively justifies the conclusion that induction cannot justify any conclusion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, One Day, Necks

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• The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Looks, Picks

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• We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

  Elvis Costello

  Animal, Instinct, Romantic Poetry

  "Elvis Costello: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.

  William Lane Craig

  Doe, Claims, Latter

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• Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.

  Moby

  Criminals, Enough, Distasteful

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• The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not accidental, by-product - and a most important by-product because liberty could not have survived if it had not also produced affluence.

  Milton Friedman

  Important, Liberty, Affluence

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• Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.312

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• It means that we must abandon the method of civil disobedience, non-cooperation and satyagraha. When there was no way left for constitutional methods for achieving economic and social objectives, there was a great deal of justification for unconstitutional methods. But where constitutional methods are open, there can be no justification for these unconstitutional methods. These methods are nothing but the Grammar of Anarchy and the sooner they are abandoned, the better for us.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Mean, Way, Anarchy

  B. R. Ambedkar (1997). “Selected speeches of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: (1927 - 1956)”

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• problematic within post-Reformation dogmatics. Is faith something I `do' to earn God's favour, and, if not, what role does it play? Once we release Paul's justification-language from the burden of having to describe `how someone becomes a Christian', however, this is simply no longer a problem. There is no danger of imagining that Christian faith is after all a surrogate `work', let alone a substitute form of moral righteousness. Faith is the badge of covenant membership, not something someone `performs' as a kind of initiation test.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Play, Membership

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• There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Reason, Existence

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• The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Data, Models

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• The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

  Derek Bok

  College, Principles, Purpose

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• We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Magic, Banking, Wave

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• There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

  George Henry Lewes

  Silence, Insincerity

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it.

  Anne LaBastille

  Lakes, Expression, Independence

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• We should have understood long ago that there is, in this world, religion without God, religion as a center of all idols that possess fallen man, religion that is the justification for these idols.

  Alexander Schmemann

  Men, Long Ago, Should Have

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• Confession of sins is not meritorious: to confess sins as a way of placing God in your debt is not dealing with sin; it is committing another sin. The context of all confession must be the free grace of justification.

  Douglas Wilson

  Grace, Debt, Way

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• We live in a world of terrorism where evil acts are being regularly perpetrated in the name of your faith. And because it is your faith that is being invoked as justification for these evil acts, it is your problem. You can't wish it away, or ignore it, just because it has been caused by others. Instead, speak up and condemn terrorism, defend your role in the way of life that we all share here in Australia.

  Andrew Robb

  Names, Australia, Evil

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