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• Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.433, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.

  Aaron Swartz

  Class, Tools, Lasts

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press

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• The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Animal, Men, Practice

  "All Labor Has Dignity".

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• To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Law, Understanding

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• There comes a moment when the things one has written, even a traveler's memories, stand up and demand a justification. They require an explanation. They query, 'Who am I? What is my name? Why am I here?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Memories, Names, Demand

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

  Christopher Dawson

  Religious, Perfection, Live In The Moment

  Christopher Dawson (2001). “Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.176, CUA Press

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• ...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

  Gary L. Francione

  Animal, Suffering And Death, Decision

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• It's very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel ... uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Hero, Valor

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes". www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

  Criss Jami

  Sympathy, Needs, Helping

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.95, Criss Jami

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• Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.

  Jinzaburo Takagi

  Plutonium, Program, Continuing

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• All action in theatre must have inner justification, be logical, coherent, and real.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Real, Theatre, Action

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• Deductivism in mathematical literature and inductivism in scientific papers are simply the postures we choose to be seen in when the curtain goes up and the public sees us. The theatrical illusion is shattered if we ask what goes on behind the scenes. In real life discovery and justification are almost always different processes.

  Peter Medawar

  Real, Science, Discovery

  Peter Brian Medawar (1969). “Induction and intuition in scientific thought”

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• This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Law, Psychological, Procedures

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• The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.

  E. P. Thompson

  Firsts, Missiles

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• Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

  Charles M. Vest

  Education, Hurt, Quality

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the fact that there is no special logic behind the world we inhabit, no particular justification for why things are the way they are. Any number of arbitrarily small perturbations along the way could have made the world as we know it turn out very differently.

  Paul Romer

  Wisdom, Numbers, Special

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• I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

  Chris Hayes

  Memories, War, Hero

  "MSNBC host apologizes after saying he's 'uncomfortable' calling fallen soldiers heroes", www.foxnews.com. May 28, 2012.

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• We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Common, Misery

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• The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

  Michael Foley

  Flower, Self, Imagination

  Michael Foley (2010). “The Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no justification for killing obviously sentient beings. Any rational person understands the striking difference between slitting the throat of a sentient animal and plucking a fruit or a vegetable.

  Joanne Stepaniak

  Pain, Animal, Vegetables

  Joanne Stepaniak (2000). “Being Vegan”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends anything that will drag in a few more people.

  Robertson Davies

  People, Church, Trends

  "Conversations with Robertson Davies". Book by Robertson Davies, "Author Says Messiah Could Be a Woman", 1989.

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• It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

  Miguel Syjuco

  These Days, Kill Me, Clinicals

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible. Without freedom the soul dies. Without the soul there is no justification for freedom. Necessity is the only ultimate justification known to the mind.

  Whittaker Chambers

  Reading, Political, Soul

  Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• Every man, therefore, who expects justification by works, must see to it, not that he is better than other men, or that he is very exact and does many things, or that he fasts twice in the week, and gives tithes of all he possesses, but that he is sinless.

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Giving, Doe

  Charles Hodge (1841). “The Way of Life”, p.142

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• During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.

  John Frohnmayer

  Military, Fire, Friendly

  John Frohnmayer (1993). “Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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