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• Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

  Jose Saramago

  Needs, Bread, Existence

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• They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nasty, Social

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.902, First Avenue Editions

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• Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Done, Kind

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Wish, Should, Fairs

  "You must be Joaquin" by Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2003.

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• Since 9/11, the Bush administration has used that tragic event as a justification to rip up our constitution and our civil liberties. And I honestly believe that one or two 9/11s, and martial law will be declared in our country and we're inching towards a police state.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Rip, Believe

  "The capped crusader" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2003.

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• Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Moral, Enough, Pleasure

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• I guess as long as people think of me for different ages, I'll trust their opinion. I remember noticing one year that Michelle Monaghan played 34 and 19, so I've kind of clung to that as my justification that I can be Jake Gyllenhaal's wife and a freshman in college in the same year.

  Anna Kendrick

  College, Thinking, Years

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• On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

  Stephen Harper

  War, Mass Destruction, Weapons

  "Maclean's Magazine", August, 25, 2003.

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• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Art, Believe

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• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  Umberto Eco

  Hard

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• Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Freedom Of Speech, Violence, Should

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• Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Patriotic, Positive Energy

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• I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

  Roseanne Barr

  Father, Parent, Want

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• Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

  Alan Rickman

  Character, Play, Judging

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• Those who love him love that he sells the most art; they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Fans, Demand

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• I am not your justification for existence.

  Margaret Atwood

  Existence

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

  Azar Nafisi

  Self Esteem, Lying, Matter

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House

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• But why must everything have a practical application? I'd been such a diligent soldier for years - working, producing, never missing a deadline, taking care of my loved ones, my gums and my credit record, voting, etc. Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? In this dark period of loss, did I need any justification for learning Italian other than that it was the only thing I could imagine bringing me any pleasure right now?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Loss, Dark, Italian

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.24, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Virtue

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Determination, Believe, Eye

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• Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

  Khalil Gibran

  Regret, Children, Our Children

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• Love appears and says: "You think you're heading towards a specific point, but the whole justification for the goal's existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little,but as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.

  Paulo Coelho

  Running, Lying, Thinking

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• By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mean, Winning, Narrative

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.95, Random House

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• But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away. He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

  Gayle Forman

  Cutting, Night, Wish

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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