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• If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, People, Use

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.144

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• Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Motivational, Dream, Trying

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• Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Grace, Spirit

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.89

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• You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way

  Martin Landau

  Regret, Looks, Stuff

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• All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Enemy, Needs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mean, Government, Order

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

  Mother Teresa

  Pain, War, Loss

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• The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

  Mark Twain

  Logic, Tradition, Harder

  1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, ch.5.

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• You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

  Garrison Keillor

  Beautiful, Good Luck, Accepting

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “Pilgrims: A Lake Wobegon Romance”, p.52, Penguin

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• We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

  Don Henley

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

  John Calvin

  Not Alone

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.198, Oxford University Press

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• It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

  John Calvin

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• The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

  Dallas Willard

  Powerful, Ideas

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my mental health justify the risks.

  Graeme Simsion

  Drinking, Alcohol, Risk

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I have had vegan Thanksgiving of tofurkey and soy gravy. And it's not to say that Thanksgiving will ever justify the genocide of the Native Americans. But vegan Thanksgiving - that's just spitting on the graves, isn't it?

  Hari Kondabolu

  Native American, Funny Thanksgiving, Soy

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• When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

  Charb

  Violence, Needs, Activist

  "The Charlie Hebdo Affair: Laughing at Blasphemy" by Emily Greenhouse, www.newyorker.com. September 28, 2012.

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• To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Practice, Class, Ideas

  Patricia Hill Collins (2000). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.284, Psychology Press

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• In the last analysis, terrorism is an idea generated by capitalism to justify better defense measures to safeguard capitalism.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Ideas, Defense, Analysis

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• Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Past, People, History

  "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.

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• It's really not rocket science. If animals are not mere things; if they have moral value, we cannot justify eating, wearing, or using them particularly when we have no better reason than palate pleasure or fashion. If you are eating, wearing, or using animals, then your actions say that you regard them as mere things, despite what your words say.

  Gary L. Francione

  Fashion, Animal, Rockets

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• If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.

  Martyn

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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• If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Men, Long

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.525, Penguin

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• Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations.

  Steven Novella

  Emotional, Comforting, Psychology

  "Skeptics' Guide to the Universe" Podcast #285, www.sgutranscripts.org. December 29, 2010.

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• People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Hurt, Honour You, People

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2013

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  Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies crazy people. Flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative.

  Bill Maher

  Crazy, Book, Thinking

  "Bill Maher: I'm Swiss". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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