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• It appears that legal positions that you have supported have been used by the administration, the military, and the CIA to justify torture and Geneva Convention violations by military and civilian personnel.

  Edward Kennedy

  Military, Administration, Used

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• Men's ideas about what women are have been formed from their ruling caste position, and have assigned women characteristics that would most advantage their masters, as well as justify men's rule over them. They do not represent 'truth' but have been promoted as if they were, with the backing of science and patriarchal views of biology.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Men, Views, Ideas

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.7, Routledge

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• I am not going to apologize for speaking the Name of Jesus, I am not going to justify my faith to them, and I am not going to hide the light that God has put in me. If I have to sacrifice everything... I will.

  Rachel

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Light

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• What the heart loves, the will chooses, and the mind justifies.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Love, Inspirational, Heart

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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  Steven Biko

  Evil, Majority, Arrogant

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is.  They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself.  This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole.  The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth.  It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Evil, Unity

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• The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. ... The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.

  Scott Ritter

  Military, War, Tools

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• I like women, especially beautiful ones. If they have a good face and figure, I would much prefer to watch them being murdered than an ugly girl or man. I certainly don`t have to justify myself to anyone about this. I don`t care what anyone thinks or reads into it. I have often had journalists walk out of interviews when I say what I feel about this subject.

  Dario Argento

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

  Fernando Botero

  Artist, Knowing, Kind

  Fernando Botero (1992). “Fernando Botero: Paintings and Drawings”, Prestel Pub

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• You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Law, Facts

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Dust, Credit

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.309, Hachette UK

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• Don't you see? We've become smart enough to justify stupid behavior. Like, 'I'm angry at him and I didn't express it, so I turned my anger inward and now it's depression, so in order to feel good again, what I should do is call him and express my anger.' It's like, if we can make it sound smart enough, we're allowed to do stupid things.

  Carrie Fisher

  Smart, Stupid, Order

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

  Glen Duncan

  Coffee, Aroma, Existence

  Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.92, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.

  Jennifer Egan

  War, Men, Two

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.271, Anchor

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• It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Years

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• First, individual rights cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the general good, and second, the principles of justice that specify these rights cannot be premised on any particular vision of the good life. What justifies the rights is not that they maximize the general welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they comprise a fair framework within which individuals and groups can choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.

  Michael Sandel

  Good Life, Rights, Justice

  Michael J. Sandel (2005). “Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics”, p.151, Harvard University Press

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• My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word defines truth. My feelings are echoes and responses to what my mind perceives. And sometimes - many times - my feelings are out of sync with the truth. When that happens - and it happens every day in some measure - I try not to bend the truth to justify my imperfect feelings, but rather, I plead with God: Purify my perceptions of your truth and transform my feelings so that they are in sync with the truth.

  John Piper

  Echoes, Feelings, Perception

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• There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil." --Luke Skywalker

  Aaron Allston

  Philosophy, Mean, Evil

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• You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.

  Bruce Lee

  Wind, Alive, Force

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.13, Tuttle Publishing

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• Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days.

  Paulo Coelho

  Matter, Moments, Intense

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Perfection

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• He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.

  Neal Shusterman

  Kids, Silence, Faces

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Upheaval

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• The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Self, Personality

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

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• there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Children, Fun, Real

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