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• Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Principles, Economic

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• Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath.

  Ray William Johnson

  Games, Looks, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

  David Berlinski

  Science, Ends, Schemes

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

  Jerry Bridges

  Ifs

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• Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.

  Thad Cochran

  Change, Thinking, President

  "Dems Call Bush's Budget a 'Hoax'; Pentagon Faces Program Cuts Despite Budget Increase; Two U.N. Officials Suspended over Scandal". "Lou Dobbs Tonight", edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2005.

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• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Eyebrows, Numbers

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• Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.

  Piers Morgan

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• The view we took at the time and we take it now is that the war was justified legally because he [Saddam Hussein] remained in breach of UN resolutions.

  Tony Blair

  War, Views, Iraq

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• The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I think if you look at some of the things that have happened this year with the Freedom Agenda, it should encourage you, that when you show up, we actually win.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Winning, Thinking

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• I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Israel, Two

  "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

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• I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

  Gene Tierney

  Father, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• If we do not take this road of dialogue and understanding then I fear for the next generation. There are enough people preaching hatred, which encourages violence. We are living in times when technology, biology and chemistry have created the possibility of killing in large numbers. And, unfortunately, the cruelty and killing are often justified through a distorted interpretation of religion.

  Akbar S. Ahmed

  Hate, Technology, Numbers

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• Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and descend to posterity. History is not the relation of campaigns and battles and generals or other individuals, but that which shows the principles for which the South contended and which justified her struggle for those principles.

  Robert E. Lee

  Struggle, Battle, Principles

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• It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Sacrifice, Doe

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• Recently the country has seen too much of our legislators, seeing them as a gaggle of check-kiting, judge-smearing deadbeats who don't pay their restaurant bills but raise their pay in the middle of the night. Many Americans-this columnist included-hitherto said tax increases are justified by the budget deficit now say: Give that mob more money? Never. Not a nickel of new taxes until term limits change the political culture on Capital Hill.

  George Will

  Country, Money, Night

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• What you do to prevent further felonious assault, as long as the felon is still capable of action, is justified.

  Jeff Cooper

  Long, Felons, Action

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

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• We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.

  William Jenkyn

  Good Work, Doing Good

  William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224

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• People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

  Maisie Williams

  People, Decision, Path

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• A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Bombs, Done

  "Clinton urges caution over Iraq as Bush is granted war powers". William J. "Bill" Clinton's speech at a Labour Party conference in the UK, quoted in The Independent, October 3, 2002.

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• No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.

  Walton Goggins

  Running, Blue, People

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• When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.

  Pearl Cleage

  Character, Angel, Play

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• So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

  Izaak Walton

  Ignorance, Long, Ignorant

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• I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.

  William Saroyan

  Daughter, Son, Technology

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Hurt, Memories, May

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.96, Anchor

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• If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.

  Tana French

  Writing, Character, Views

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