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• That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.

  Max Barry

  People, Values

  Max Barry (2007). “Company”, p.111, Vintage

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• I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Leaving, Engagement, Social

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• The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Law, Way

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• Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Firsts, Newspapers, Dictatorship

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• The U.S. military today garrisons the planet in a fashion without historical precedent. Successive administrations, regardless of party, justify and perpetuate this policy by insisting that positioning U.S. forces in distant lands fosters peace, stability, and security. In the present century, however, perpetuating this practice has visibly had the opposite effect. In the eyes of many of those called upon to "host" American bases, the permanent presence of such forces smacks of occupation. They resist. Why should U.S. policymakers expect otherwise?

  Andrew Bacevich

  Fashion, Military, Party

  "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.

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• There's enough ugliness - you know, we got wars going on and people dying and sickness and everything. We don't need to have our art be ugly. But it is, in a lot of it. And these people justify this crap by saying, "Oh we're just representing what's out there, man". Basically, you're making it worse and number one, the artist's job is to elevate people and to lift people up and to give them a place to go, something to hold on to.

  Don McLean

  Art, War, Men

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• Militant Islam, jihad, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, you name it, they are conquerors. It might be politically correct to say, somebody like Obama might try to justify what they're doing based on the Crusades, which he constantly does, but it has nothing to do with this. They are conquerors. Islam is a conquest ideology. Not even a religion.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trying, Islam, Ideology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Multi-millionaires who pay half or less than half of the percentage of tax the rest of us pay justify their actions by saying they pay what the law requires. Though true, the fact is they found ways within the law to beat the purpose of the law - which, in the case of taxes, is that we all pay our fair share.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Purpose, Half

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophy, Order, People

  "Other Economists in the Room" by Jane Smiley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2009.

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• The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Writing, Biblical

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• If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.

  Lysander Spooner

  Party, Government, Principles

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• Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

  Ralph Steadman

  Mean, Thug, Ugly

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• Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

  Matt Taibbi

  Wall, Matter, Making Money

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• Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.

  Randall Terry

  Christian, Trying, Scripture

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• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wise, Commitment, College

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• People come to have different moral beliefs because they have different non-moral beliefs about relevant facts. People are disposed to believe whatever justifies the practices and institutions that benefit them. But I argue that not all moral differences can be explained away in such a fashion. Some of the most profound disagreements come from differences in priority assigned to values such as relationship and community on the one hand, and individual rights and personal autonomy for the individual, on the other hand.

  David Wong

  Fashion, Believe, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mean, What If, Ends

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sex, Children

  CNN Presidential Town Hall: America’s Military and The Commander and Chief, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 28, 2016.

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• We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Love Is, People

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• Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or "surrender" as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing-absolutely nothing-in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Arrogance, Islam

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.129, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Roots, Justice

  1792 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pt.1, ch.1.

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• I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Heart, Men, Way

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• Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.

  Bertrand Russell

  Opinion, Inspired, Cruelty

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.144, Routledge

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• My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Men, Color

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Peace, War, Intelligence Services

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