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• I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies. I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. If you look at it logically, it's something that was drilled into your head when you were a small child. It certainly was drilled into mine at that age. And you really can't be responsible when you are a kid for what adults put into your head.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. February 15, 2005.

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• God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Goal, End Of Life, Ends

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

  Robert Greene

  Trying, Complaining

  Twitter post from Oct 01, 2014

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• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace of wildness and life that aims at dancing on the ruins of clocks, computers and that failure of imagination and will called work. Can we justify our lives by anything less than such a politics of rage and dreams?

  John Zerzan

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  John Zerzan (2012). “Future Primitive Revisited”, p.96, Feral House

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• If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits

  Ruth Benedict

  War, Examination, Bears

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product.

  Mircea Eliade

  Reality, Historical, Looks

  Mircea Eliade (1989). “Journal II, 1957-1969”, p.269, University of Chicago Press

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• Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and the rest - have some kind of dignity or worth that no elephant, pig, or chimpanzee can ever achieve, we see that this question is as difficult to answer as our original request for some relevant fact that justifies the inequality of humans and other animals.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Pigs, Elephants

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• We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Principles, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

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• If God gives you gifts you must use them to justify your life. It is what the Greeks called divine discontent that drives you.

  Mary Fairfax

  Wisdom, Giving, Greek

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• The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one’s fingers.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, Political, Principles

  ARTHUR KOESTLER (1941). “DARKNESS AT NOON”

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• No cause can justify the abuse of human rights.

  Irene Khan

  Rights, Abuse, Causes

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• Every lie has 2 parts - the lie we tell others and the one we tell ourselves to justify it.

  George Deukmejian

  Lying

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• The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

  George Santayana

  Life, Believe, Long

  George Santayana, Martin A. Coleman (2009). “The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings”, p.60, Indiana University Press

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• American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, Causes, American Gods

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". en.wikiquote.org.

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• We take these animals and completely violate who they are. We use them, abuse them, and deprive them all their lives…then we cut their throats, shred them and eat them! Morally, I’m against it, ethically, I can’t justify it, and ecologically, it’s just insane. The thought of meat-eating makes me shudder. As far as wearing fur is concerned, it is the rudest, most inconsiderate, selfish and sick façade I can imagine.

  River Phoenix

  Selfish, Cutting, Animal

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• I like the story about me being pregnant. It was in some Australian magazine, on the front page! I was like, 'Wow, that's just [insane].' And it's not even ironic. I don't even think the article [tried to justify it]; it was just a headline. The article was just like, nothing.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Ironic, Insane

  "'New Moon' Star Robert Pattinson Laughs Off Pregnancy Rumors" by Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. November 6, 2009.

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• The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others - with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.

  Henry Grady Weaver

  Mean, Views, Agony

  Henry Grady Weaver (2016). “The Mainspring of Human Progress [Revised Edition]”, p.38, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Being an actor is looked at like a prolonged game of dress-up. America puts movie stars on pedestals. In college, it's the flip side. I sometimes have to justify my job to my professors because they're focused on intellect and ideas.

  Julia Stiles

  Jobs, Stars, College

  People Magazine, April 6, 2004.

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• I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.

  Richard Attenborough

  Men, Rights, Order

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In every job, I would justify it in my mind, whether I loved it or hated it, that I was getting paid to learn and every experience would be of value when I figured out what I wanted to do when I grew up.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Mind, Would Be

  Mark Cuban (2011). “How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It”, p.7, Diversion Books

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• Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite.

  Danny Masterson

  Christian, Philosophy, Teaching

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• We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. No more inhumanity.

  Rocky Anderson

  Religious, War, Lying

  Rocky Anderson's speech against the war in Iraq and Bush administration policies at a rally in Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah, archive.sltrib.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mean, Breathing Space, History

  Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Optimism, then, is a fact within my own heart. But as I look out upon life, my heart meets no contradiction. The outward world justifies my inward universe of good.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, Optimism, Facts

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby do they attempt to distract the public from pressing domestic matters, serve the overseas interests of U.S. investors, justify gargantuan military budgets, and present themselves as great leaders.

  Michael Parenti

  Military, War, Order

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