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• I refuse to turn to theology to justify the life or redeem it. There is a question always of the connection to the eternal. I say to myself above all, keep alive your conviction that there are sacred elements in the life in the practice of the life that must be respected. But the conviction in the existence of the sacred does not necessarily imply that you need to believe in a creator, because we are the ones that made the sacred.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Believe, Practice, Elements

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• It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to claim it's some kind of democratizing force that is not responsible for what it does. The notion that the media simply reflects reality is an argument that justifies its flight from responsibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Reality, Abuse

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I daresay one good concert justifies a week of satisfaction at home.

  Robert Plant

  Home, Satisfaction, Week

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• The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

  Jose Saramago

  Confused, Reality, People

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• A state department official once told me this about the role of the president. He said: "We wage war for realist reasons, we justify wars for idealist reasons, and it's the president's job to balance the two." I agree.

  Michael Hastings

  War, Balance, President

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Thinking

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through faith. Savage force is faith's obedient servant. Violence on an apocalyptic scale can only be born of faith because reason, by its very nature, disarms senseless cruelty. Only faith thinks to justify it.

  Terry Goodkind

  Thinking, Ideas, Understanding

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.478, Head of Zeus

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• That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about the others to justify it. It's not bad enough just being bad to someone, but then lying about it.

  Whit Stillman

  Lying, People, Just Being

  Source: www.openlettersmonthly.com

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• [The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it to myself, no matter how irrational it was. It was important to me and my work. And I just don't feel it in the same way any more. When it comes up and it's important to me, I'll do it, but more out of sense of duty than desire - which used to be a big part of it.

  Peter van Agtmael

  Long, Desire, Important

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• I think we've misinterpreted some of the scriptures to justify the death penalty. So whereas a lot of folks in America feel like we can do far better justice  -  it's more expensive to do the death penalty than the alternatives  -  there's so many reasons that people come to the conclusion to abolish the death penalty.

  Shane Claiborne

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: medium.com

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• I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Mind, Literature

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• When you are incubating new ideas, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket" is very good advice. But when you are seeking to transform your enterprise's portfolio by scaling a fledgling business to material size - say ten percent of total enterprise revenue - then it is imperative that you make that the singular focus of everyone in the enterprise for the two to three year period it is likely to require to reach its tipping point. Expecting to do two such scaling efforts in parallel is simply folly, yet that is what the "eggs/basket" idea is often used to justify.

  Geoffrey Moore

  Eggs, Ideas, Two

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers. These actions were taken with the support and financing of the United States.

  Edward Said

  Taken, Years, Support

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.

  Judith Butler

  War, Self, Mourning

  Interview with Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• If Congress is going to investigate baseball players about whether or not they told the truth, how can we justify giving the most powerful intelligence official, [James] Clapper, a pass? This is how J. Edgar Hoover ended up in charge of the FBI forever.

  Edward Snowden

  Baseball, Powerful, Player

  Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• It's not that you make up your ideas to justify your temperament but that it's the temperament first.

  Susan Sontag

  Ideas, Firsts, Temperament

  Source: ctheory.net

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• If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

  Byron Katie

  War, Order, Said

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• [Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote.

  Chuck Todd

  Crazy, Self, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

  Woody Allen

  Meaningful, Artist, Glasses

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• When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach seem natural, then your questions concern the context of discovery. When you ask whether the argument the philosopher puts forth to answer that question is sound, or whether the evidence justifies the scientific theory proposed, then you've entered the context of justification. Considerations of history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology are relevant to the context of discovery, but not to justification.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Discovery, Psychology, Answers

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.166, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• People say, oh we just need charismatic leaders to continue on to Mars. Now we've gone to the moon, of course Mars is next. No. Mars was never, of course, next. It is next if you think we went to the moon because we're explorers, but if you know we went to the moon because we were at war then we're never going to Mars. There's no military reason to do it, to justify the expenditure.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Military, War, Moon

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• the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Mean, Ends

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• The ends justifies the means.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Ends, Ends Justify The Means

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2003). “Discourses on Livy”, p.444, OUP Oxford

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• You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice your love. Practice creates the master.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love You, Practice, Needs

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• When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe that just tells the truth: Look, it's a violation of international law. But most have to construct complex arguments to justify it as defense counsel. That's basically their job, defense counsel for state power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Law, Iraq

  Source: progressive.org

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