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• The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Motivation, Mean, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

  David Alan Harvey

  Abortion, Typical, Adults

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• As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

  Dar Williams

  Song, Slavery, Good Things

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.

  Immortal Technique

  War, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

  John Stuart Mill

  Liberty, Purpose, Action

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

  Mario Puzo

  Trying, Done, Forget

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.118, Penguin

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• Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you. It is simply a movement to release and ease your heart of the pain and hatred that binds it. It is the harvested fruit of a season of darkness, followed by a season of growth and of very hard work.

  Dawna Markova

  Pain, Mean, Hard Work

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• If the Liberal Left can create the common perception that success and failure are simple matters of 'fortune' or 'luck,' then it is easy to promote and justify their various income redistribution schemes.

  Neal Boortz

  Simple, Perception, Luck

  Neal Boortz (2001). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, Taylor Trade Pub

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• However little president Obama knows or cares about economics, he knows a lot about politics - and especially political rhetoric. 'High-speed rail' is simply another set of loft words to justify continued expansion of government spending. So are words like 'investment in education' or 'investment' in any number of other things, which serves the same political purpose.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Numbers, Political

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• It is certainly true that most men need some kind of a God. A few, and they are the men of genius, do not bow to an alien law. The rest try to justify their doings and misdoings, their thinking and existence (at least the menial side of it), to some one else, whether it be the personal God of the Jews, or a beloved, respected, and revered human being. It is only in this way that they can bring their lives under the social law. . . .

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Thinking, Law

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• The other piece of this is that we call for cutting our bloated and dangerous military budget. And this is something that is made possible by moving to 100% clean renewable energy, where we cannot justify wars for oil, and where we cannot justify having some 700, 800 bases gathered around the world in something like 100 countries in significant measure protecting either access to fossil fuels or protecting routes of transportation.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Military, War

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• I have loved my work, I have loved people and my play, but always I have been uplifted by the thought that what I have done well will live long and justify my life, that what I have done ill or never finished can now be handed on to others for endless days to be finished, perhaps better than I could have done.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Play, Long, People

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• You do not need to justify asking questions. But if you think you have found answers, you do not have the right to remain silent.

  Jacob Neusner

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Needs

  Jacob Neusner (2007). “How To Grade Your Professors: And Other Unexpected Advice”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Do not expect that once taking advantage of Russia's weakness, you will receive dividends forever. Russian has always come for their money. And when they come - do not rely on an agreement signed by you, you are supposed to justify. They are not worth the paper it is written. Therefore, with the Russian is to play fair, or do not play.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Russia, Agreement, Play

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• People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

  Desmond Tutu

  People, Use

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• You will find that the Bible, if you want it to, will justify many things. St. Paul had a very male chauvinistic view of women. He would say things like women must not talk in church, must cover their heads, they mustn't talk and must remember that it was a woman who first tempted and this whole mess started because women messed us up. So you can read it in such a way that it justifies polygamy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Views, Church, Way

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Are you living to justify yourself, or are you living because you are justified?

  Timothy Keller

  Justified

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• Despite his profound incompetence on many levels, Obama has been an adept propagandist who has blamed capitalism for problems caused and magnified by socialist remedies to justify further socialist solutions. He's now doing the same thing all over again as his new socialist solutions are failing.

  David Limbaugh

  Profound, Levels, Problem

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• Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

  Desmond Tutu

  Israel, Land, Political

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.

  Warren Buffett

  Naked, Acquisition, Fairy Tale

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• You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Giving, Attention

  Source: renovare.org

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• Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

  C. J. Anderson

  Clever, Reality, Imagination

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• Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you can never actually receive, constantly full of emptiness, trying to justify your twisted actions by politics and ‘feel good’ language.

  Michael Glatze

  Feel Good, Trying, Wanting More

  "My Ex-Gay Friend". Interview with Benoit Denizet-Lewis, www.nytimes.com. June 16, 2011.

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• No one justifies lying, cheating, betraying, promise breaking, devastating and harming strangers. But we expect and we tolerate doing this to the one person in the world we promised most seriously to be faithful to forever: we justify divorce.

  Peter Kreeft

  Cheating, Lying, Divorce

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• If the end is right, it justifies the beans!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Ends, Beans, Ifs

  Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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