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• When we don't get any treats, we feel depleted, resentful, and angry, and we feel justified in self-indulgence. We start to crave comfort - and grab that comfort wherever we can, even if it means breaking good habits.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mean, Self, Comfort

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• We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

  Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

  Sex, Believe, Mean

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• You always want someone to hate in order to feel justified in your own misery. Hatred is the true primordial passion. It is love that's abnormal. That is why Christ was killed: he spoke against nature. You don't love someone for your whole life - that impossible hope is the source of adultery, matricide, betrayal of friends ... But you can hate someone for your whole life - provided he's always there to keep your hatred alive. Hatred warms the heart.

  Umberto Eco

  Betrayal, Hate, Passion

  Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.355, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to discipline heretics cannot be justified on the grounds of the preservation of 'Christian unity'... It is error which breaks the unity of churches, and to remain in a denominational alignment which condones error is to support schism.

  Charles Haddon

  Christian, Errors, Discipline

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• I think people are drawn to characters that break the rules. I think there is something about a good person doing bad things for what they consider to be a good reason. Then the battle is on to almost prove to the audience that it's justified. How far can you go with that? How far can that character go before people won't accept it? Trying to walk to edge of that line is a challenge.

  Steven Knight

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.

  Pearl Tan

  Kids, Cutting, Asian

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• It matters not whether these weapons of ours are humane: if they gain us our freedom, they are justified before our conscience and before our God.

  Adolf Hitler

  Atheism, Weapons, Matter

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

  Edith Evans

  Successful, Artist, Kind

  "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 13, 1977.

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• If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.

  John Howard

  Christian, War, Negative

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• Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

  Benjamin Harrison

  Presidential

  Benjamin Harrison (1901). “Views of an Ex-president”

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• Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

  Mary Garden

  Spiritual, Children, Views

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• The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help. Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart, this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already: either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.

  Michael Horton

  Jesus, Children, Father

  Michael Horton (2008). “Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church”, p.74, Baker Books

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• I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

  Sylvia Porter

  People, Assumption, Affair

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• The only justifications for belief have the form "justified for me".

  Ken Wilber

  Belief, Form, Justification

  Ken Wilber (2003). “Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• We need some remedial training on how to live as subjects in a kingdom. We may be justified in rejecting the divine right of kings to rule but we cannot be justified if we reject the rule of our divine king.

  Joe Carter

  Kings, Divine Right, Training

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• Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

  J. I. Packer

  People, Saint, Holiness

  J. I. Packer (2005). “Keep in Step with the Spirit: Finding Fullness in Our Walk with God”, p.88, Baker Books

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• Whenever women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam. It is an unfounded argument. It is not Islam at fault, but rather the patriarchal culture that uses its own interpretations to justify whatever it wants.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Law, Islam

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, progressive.org. September 1, 2004.

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• You must understand that if you indulge in revenge exclusively, it will come back to you, because those who are revenged upon - even if the whole world believes they deserve it - will in some way express exactly what was expressed towards them. Why perpetuate suffering, no matter how justified it may seem to be, if it only perpetuates suffering in the future for future generations?

  Robert Shapiro

  Revenge, Believe, Indulge In

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• Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, War, Support

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• When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

  Christopher Booker

  Past, Years, Data

  "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• I find it hard myself to feel justified to sing in a very politically direct way about war or social conditions because I feel so ignorant of a lot of it.

  PJ Harvey

  War, Ignorant, Way

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• It is not surprising that liberals believed in progress. The idea of progress justified the entire transition from feudalism to capitalism. It legitimated the breaking of the remaining opposition to the commodification of everything, and it tended to wipe away all the negatives of capitalism on the grounds that the benefits outweighed, by far, the harm.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Ideas, Progress, Transition

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.97, Verso

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• They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Sheep, Shepherds, Would Be

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.60, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

  Erich Fromm

  Tyrants, Goal, Enemy

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.121, Open Road Media

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• When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

  Ray McGovern

  Country, War, Tyrants

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