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• As Elders we have great respect for all religions and traditions as important forces that bind people together. Faith and tradition provide much of the foundation of our laws and social codes. But where religion and tradition are used to justify discrimination and especially when they are used to justify cruel and harmful practices such as female genital mutilation, infanticide and child marriage, then we believe that is unacceptable.

  Mary Robinson

  Children, Believe, Law

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• I see is that there are many people who destroy their marriages because of one-night stands with someone else. And as the French say, "C'est ne pas grave." It's not something easy to swallow, but at the same time, it does not justify you to end a long-lasting relationship because something happened.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Long, People

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

  James Luther Adams

  Meaningful, Attitude, Optimism

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level of religious thought, to conceal, embellish or justify the actual relationships which prevail among the living.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Religious, Finals, Analysis

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.232, Penguin

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• I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Rights, Government, People

  Abraham Lincoln, H. C. Whitney, United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) (1907). “State papers, 1861-1865”

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• The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor can it keep people persuaded once they have ceased to believe. It penetrates into minds already open, and rather than instill opinion it articulates and justifies opinions already present in the minds of its recipients.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, People, Mind

  "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1951.

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• A pessimist asked God for relief. Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness, said God. No, replied the petitioner, I wish you to create something that would justify them. The world is all created,said God, but you have overlooked something

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wish, Relief, World

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.155, 谷月社

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• Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.

  Steven Shainberg

  Independent, Names, Actors

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• There are two parts to the human dilemma. One is the belief that the end justifies the means. That push-button philosophy, that deliberate deafness to suffering, has become the monster in the war machine. The other is the betrayal of the human spirit: the assertion of dogma that closes the mind, and turns a nation, a civilization, into a regiment of ghosts--obedient ghosts or tortured ghosts.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Betrayal, Philosophy, War

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking of self comforts, conveniences, freedoms, luxuries, or ease. Sometimes the ceaseless pin pricking of an unhappy, discontented, and selfish spouse can finally add up to serious physical violence. Sometimes people are goaded to the point where they erringly feel justified in doing the things that are so wrong. Nothing of course justifies sin.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Selfish, Party, Divorce

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• In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

  Stefan Collini

  Humanity, Trying, Nerves

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• To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Past, Use, Enough

  Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.468, Random House

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• So I put that all together and I find it makes it hard to justify a filibuster.

  Kent Conrad

  Together, Filibuster, Hard

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• War justifies everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War

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• The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and education classes to give a bold lead for our guidance and a brilliant record of histrorical achievements and traditions.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Responsibility, Past, Young Generation

  "Some Recent Speeches and Writings of Mr. Jinnah", December 24, 1940.

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• The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business in to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down. His trained hand and eye and judgment are as much a part of his armament as his machinegun, and a fiftyfifty chance is the worst he will take or should take except where the show is of the kind that . . . justifies the sacrifice of plane or pilot.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Eye, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Support, Parent, Criminals

  "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.

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• How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

  Coco Rocha

  Fashion, Art, Children

  "Coco Rocha Responds To ‘Fat’ Flap: This Is A Moral Matter", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2010.

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• You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

  Brian Tracy

  Emotional, Thinking, Feels

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• In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

  Tony Abbott

  Running, Government, Cities

  "Battlelines". Book by Tony Abbott, 2009.

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• How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam?

  Pat Buchanan

  War, Son, White

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• Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, September 11, Secret

  Noam Chomsky (2001). “9-11 [neuf-onze]”, p.35, Seven Stories Press

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• Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.

  Toussaint Louverture

  Character, Enemy, Needs

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• The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also announces and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the U.S. from a sovereign Constitutional Republic into a servile member state of a one-world dictatorship.

  John Rarick

  Government, Order, Influence And Power

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