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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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• How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

  Roger Stone

  Party, People, Liberty

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• The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means.

  Saul Alinsky

  War, Mean, Ethics

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.29, Vintage

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• There’s simply nothing in there that would justify second degree murder.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Degrees, Murder

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Winning, Glowing, Differences

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, September 1906.

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• If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.

  Russ Feingold

  Office, Should, Congress

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• Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

  Robert Pinsky

  Mean, Ideas, Long

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• The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Class, Humanity

  "Shulamith Firestone obituary" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

  Dan Ariely

  Cheating, People, Cash

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• In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger and is at best the object of pity. The world will allow itself to be subdued only by success. It is not ideas or opinions which decide, but deeds. Success alone justifies wrongs done With a frankness and off-handedness which no other earthly power could permit itself, history appeals in its own cause to the dictum that the end justifies the means The figure of the Crucified invalidates all thought which takes success for its standard.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Mean, Ideas, Done

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• ..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Effort, Meals, Illusion

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• When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

  Carl Rogers

  Empathy, Relax, Way

  Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion. The truth of the mater is that hierarchy and violence can't be remedied by more hierarchy and violence. The end doesn't justify the means, the means we choose decide the end we get. The means are the end.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Empathy, Violence

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• Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Essence, Simplicity, Desire

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• 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.

  Joseph Furphy

  Party, Expression, Play

  Joseph Furphy (2016). “Such is Life”, p.342, Joseph Furphy

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• No degree of prosperity could justify
  the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to
  make safe and which remain an incalculable danger to the whole of creation for historical or
  even geological ages. To do such a thing is a transgression against life itself,
  a transgression infinitely more serious than any crime perpetrated by man.
  The idea that a civilization could sustain itself on such a transgression is an ethical, spiritual, and metaphysical monstrosity. It means conducting the economical affairs of man
  as if people did not matter at all.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Mean, Men

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• Does the end justify the means? Or should it be, Do the ends justify the mean; do the extremes justify moderation?

  Daniel N. Robinson

  Mean, Simple, Doe

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• When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Believe, Heart, Evil

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• The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

  Warren E. Burger

  Christian, Religious, Liberty

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• When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Justice, Trying, Doe

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• No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.

  Guy Debord

  Cutting, Order, Tree

  "Comments on the Society of the Spectacle". Book by Guy Debord, 1988.

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• A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.

  Don Kates

  Life, Self, Defense

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• Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule their children into activities and classes. Similarly, some at-home mothers,... can make at- home mothering into a bigger deal than it is, over stimulating, overeducating, and overwhelming their children with purposeful attention.

  Jean Marzollo

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jean Marzollo (1991). “Your Maternity Leave”, Poseidon Press

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• Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

  Isabel Paterson

  Obliged

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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