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• To rest the case for equal treatment of national or racial minorities on the assumption that they do not differ from other men is implicitly to admit that factual inequality would justify unequal treatment, and the proof that some differences do, in fact, exist would not be long in forthcoming. It is of the essence of the demand for equality before the law that people should be treated alike in spite of the fact that they are different.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Law, Essence

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 6 : Equality, Value and Merit, 1960.

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• I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

  Gloria Steinem

  Unique, Years, Body

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• You yourself create all your misery, hour after hour, day after day. You think the goal justifies the means, even the vile means. You are wrong: The goal is in the path on which you arrive at it. Every step of today is your life of tomorrow. No great goal can be reached by vile means. That you have proven in every social revolution. The vileness or inhumanity of the path to the goal makes you vile or inhuman, and the goal unattainable.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Intelligent, Competition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

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• I don't care whether it was once sacred or not, I HATE WHAT I DO. It's destroying my soul, making me lose touch with myself, teaching me that pain is a reward, that money buys everything and justifies everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Hate, Teaching

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• The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Art, Patriotic, Exercise

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• Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, 'It's business.' That is, 'it's business' has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, People, Special

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• In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Responsibility, Power, Framework

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• Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

  Byron White

  Doe, Use, Failing

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• No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Opportunity, Evil, Justice

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.

  Bill Vaughan

  Real, Moving, Artist

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• I say that inner beauty doesn't exist. That's something that unpretty women invented to justify themselves.

  Osmel Sousa

  Pretty Woman, Inner Beauty

  "Mannequins Give Shape to a Venezuelan Fantasy". www.nytimes.com. November 6, 2013.

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• True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

  May Sarton

  Feelings, Cost, May

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.106, Open Road Media

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• The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

  Malcolm X

  Intelligent, Israel, Occupation

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• There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  Eric Hoffer

  Years, Effort, Individuality

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

  Prince Charles

  Royalty, Existence, Feels

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

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• God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Grace, Sin

  Twitter post from Apr 7, 2012

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

  Alveda King

  Thinking, Errors, Roots

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• This country is a nation of thieves. It stole everything it has, beginning with black people. The U.S. cannot justify its existence as the policeman of the world any longer. I do not want to be a part of the American pie. The American pie means raping South Africa, beating Vietnam, beating South America, raping the Philippines, raping every country you’ve been in. I don’t want any of your blood money. I don’t want to be part of that system. We must question whether or not we want this country to continue being the wealthiest country in the world at the price of raping everybody else.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Country, Mean, Blood

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• The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

  Chinua Achebe

  Light, Years, Needs

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• There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

  Margaret Atwood

  Handy

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.27, Anchor

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• The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

  Georges Bernanos

  Mean, Tyrants, Deception

  Georges Bernanos (1955). “Last essays”

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• From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Men, Used, Zealotry

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pain, Years, Boards

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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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