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• Suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them. You would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the Kingdom of God. I would at once do so, in such a case; and under the circumstances, I have no wife whom I love so well that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands.... There is not a man or woman, who violates the covenants made with their God, that will not be required to pay the debt. The blood of Christ will never wipe that out, your own blood must atone for it.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.247

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• And here and now we must insist again that fidelity, honor, and love of country demand untrammeled debate and open dissent. At no time is that truer than in the midst of a war rooted in deceit and justified by continuing deception.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, War, Honor

  "John Kerry Gets His Voice Back" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2006.

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• It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

  Camille Pissarro

  Doe, London, Critics

  Camille Pissarro, Lucien Pissarro (1943). “Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien”

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• It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Would Be

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• A person of power embraces challenges in complete gratitude. No matter the situation life may bring, discontent is never justified, rather all is experienced as an opportunity and a privilege to venture and grow.

  James Arthur Ray

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Challenges

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• The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Levels, Uniforms

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press

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• Not justified - but Himmler told me that if the Jews were not exterminated at that time, then the German people would be exterminated for all time by the Jews.

  Rudolf Hoss

  People, Would Be, Himmler

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Choices, Introduction, Pregnant

  Carl Friedrich Gauss (1965). “General investigations of curved surfaces”

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• No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.

  James Bovard

  War, Order, Should Have

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• Not in the name of a necessary protection of the white race did the European break into China, but for the benefit of the Jewish-mercantile greed for profit. He thus dishonored himself, destroying a whole civilization, provoking justified indignation. China fights for its myth, for its race, and its ideals, as does the renewal-movement in Germany against the mercantile race that rules all stock markets and the actions of most governments.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Fighting, Civilization, Names

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.

  Harlan F. Stone

  Names, Liberty, Minorities

  Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 310 U.S. 586, 1940.

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• A 'treat' is different from a 'reward', which must be justified or earned. A treat is a small pleasure or indulgence that we give to ourselves just because we want it. Treats give us greater vitality, which boosts self-control, which helps us maintain our healthy habits.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Self, Healthy Habits, Giving

  "What Are Your Treats? Do You Have Any That Don’t Look Like Treats?". gretchenrubin.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted only when justified by facts. If there is no solid basis for extending a certain monopoly protection, then we should not extend that protection. This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth. Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good -- for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Believe, Mean, Patents

  "May the Source Be With You". www.wired.com. December 21, 2001.

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• Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it.

  Martin Luther

  Law, Holy, Divine

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Character, Average, Parent

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2015). “Average Jones”, p.3, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Teacher, Acceptance, Law

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.55

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• I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.

  Malcolm X

  Thinking, Doubt, Liberty

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 44), 2013.

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• Anytime you live in a society supposedly based upon law and it doesn't enforce its own laws because the color of a man's skin happens to be wrong, then I say those people are justified to resort to any means necessary to bring about justice when the government can't give them justice.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, Men, Color

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• I was stuck in the feeling that one did not--was not justified in being alive unless one was fulfilling other people's dreams, whether they were contractual dreams or the public's dreams, or fulfilling my own dreams and illusions about what I thought I was supposed to be, which, in retrospect, turned out to not be what I am.

  John Lennon

  Dream, People, Feelings

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• For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Commitment, Doe

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

  Pat Sajak

  Country, Race, Arms

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• I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Good And Evil, Enough

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.546, The Floating Press

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• Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow, the assumption that his economic goal is primary, and his other activities are instrumental to it. The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.

  John Carroll

  Believe, Mean, Goal

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.121, Taylor & Francis

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• Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Injustice And Oppression, Strikes

  "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes". Book by Rutherford B. Hayes, 1922 - 1926.

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• Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

  Anthony Trollope

  Order, Creating, Vices

  Anthony Trollope (2014). “An Autobiography: and Other Writings”, p.99, OUP Oxford

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