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• In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

  John Pilger

  America, People, Lasts

  "Blair has made Britain a target" by John Pilger, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2001.

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• The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right is systematically denied, in which economic policies do not allow workers to reach satisfactory levels of employment, cannot be justified from an ethical point of view, nor can that society attain social peace.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sweat, Views, Bread

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• It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be.

  Ilya Ehrenburg

  Writing, Fate, Destiny

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• There is no human law or law of God or national law that states that any healthy being has to permit the snake to eat the mouse - but on the other hand, it is perfectly justified to defend the mouse.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Hands, Law, Snakes

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, June 06, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, p. 151, 2004.

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• Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

  Walden Bello

  Military, Islamic, Fighting

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• Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Car, Needs

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.109, Macmillan

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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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• You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.

  Richard Stallman

  Writing, Software, Knows

  Richard M. Stallman's speech "Free Software: Freedom and Cooperation", New York University in New York, New York, www.gnu.org. May 29, 2001.

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• To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love, scorned indeed by the too-easily-satisfied religionist, but justified in happy experience by the children of the burning heart.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Heart, Soul

  "The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1948.

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• We are less justified in saying that the thinking life of humanity is a miraculous perfectioning of animal and physical life than that it is an imperfection in the organization of spiritual life as rudimentary as the communal existence of protozoa in colonies.

  Marcel Proust

  Spiritual, Thinking, Animal

  Marcel Proust (2016). “TIME REGAINED (Modern Classics Series): Metaphysical Novel - Coming to a Full Circle (In Search of Lost Time)”, p.296, e-artnow

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• To be an anarchist only means that you believe that aggression is not justified, and that states necessarily employ aggression. And, therefore, that states, and the aggression they necessarily employ, are unjustified. It's quite simple, really. It's an ethical view, so no surprise it confuses utilitarians.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Believe, Mean, Simple

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• Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.

  Guy Debord

  Leisure, Emptiness, Impossibility

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• It is sobering to recall that though the Japanese relocation program, carried through at such incalculable cost in misery and tragedy, was justified on the ground that the Japanese were potentially disloyal, the record does not disclose a single case of Japanese disloyalty or sabotage during the whole war.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Tragedy, Cost

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• I’m a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It’s certainly the most miserable state to be in but it’s also tremendously gratifying, really—rage feels justified. And it’s an excellent substitute for action. Why would you want to sacrifice rage to go about the long, difficult, dreary business of making something more tolerable?

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Sacrifice, Long, Experts

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• Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.

  Dennis Prager

  Integrity, People, Littles

  Dennis Prager (1995). “Think a Second Time”, Harpercollins

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• Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

  Peter Drucker

  Be Good, Enterprise, Free Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.29, Routledge

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• The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Men, Sight, Degrees

  Robin Boisvert, C. J. Mahaney (1992). “This Great Salvation: Unmerited Favor, Unmatched Joy”, p.52, Sovereign Grace Ministries

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• I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't.

  Paul Krugman

  Currents, Not Sure, Values

  Paul Krugman (2004). “The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

  Henry George

  Slave Owners, Special, Aristocracy

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• 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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• In Ukraine, there has never been a consensus behind NATO membership. Even Yulia Tymoshenko was noncommittal when she was still prime minister. Georgia under President Mikhail Saakashvili pursued a rather aggressive stance, which stood in the way of its NATO membership. Given both states' unique relationships with Russia, concerns were justified that NATO membership would trigger Russia's reasonable fears of encirclement.

  Heinrich August Winkler

  Unique, President, Aggressive

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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