Unjustified Quotes

• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Leadership, Bullying

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1933 See Francis Bacon 7; Montaigne 4; Thoreau 16; Wellington 3

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man.

  Pat Paulsen

  Fear, Breast Cancer, Men

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• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Atheist, Thinking, Hair

  H. P. Lovecraft (1999). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories”, p.11, Penguin

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• Violence does even justice unjustly.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Justice, Doe, Violence

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.20

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• Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And we must hazard them to win our prize. Those among us who are unwilling to expose their ideas to the hazard of refutation do not take part in the scientific game.

  Karl Popper

  Mean, Winning, Games

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.280, Routledge

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• These people looked Japanese, were originally Japanese, were numerous. We had no way of knowing to what extent they had been infiltrated. To their great credit, it seems not to have been very much at all. But I can understand why. And I rather respect Eleanor for standing out against the tide at that point. But it certainly was a tide. And I'm not going to say it was unjustified.

  William A. Rusher

  Knowing, People, Credit

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• United States:. A nation given either to unjustified over-enthusiasms or infantile furies.

  John Ralston Saul

  United States, Enthusiasm, Given

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

  Will Rogers

  War, Home, Killing

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.113, Rowman & Littlefield

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• In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

  Peter Drucker

  Corporations, Modern, Responsible

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.74, Routledge

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• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Exercise, Men

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• Our main conclusions about the state are that a minimal state, limited, to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified, but any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

  Robert Nozick

  Rights, Enforcement, Protection

  Anarchy, State, and Utopia preface (1974)

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• The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Views, Personality

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.33, Open Road Media

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• It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

  Sigmund Freud

  Gowns, Gaps, Philosopher

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

  Edward Snowden

  Able, Cyber, Domain

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

  Albert Camus

  Great Love, Despair, Conquer

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• The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Effort, Black, May

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Obama is playing to the lowest common denominator of everybody, and he is telling them that if anybody's got more money than you do, it's not fair and it's unjustified and somehow you have been ripped off or screwed, and that is his message.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Messages, Common, More Money

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As for Europe, its claims towards Russia are fairly transparently based on fears about energy, unjustified fears at that.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Russia, Europe, Energy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

  Marlon Brando

  Writing, Fighting, Actors

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• When we find unjustified spikes in the prices of long-standing life-saving drugs, we should slap penalties on companies trying to cheat people who need those drugs!

  Hillary Clinton

  Long, People, Drug

  Source: time.com

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• If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Heaven, Justified, Christ

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• I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.

  Paloma Faith

  Looks, Emotion, Hindsight

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• The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.

  Al Alvarez

  Art, Real, Resistance

  Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Unless you go through all the genuine angers you feel, both justified and unjustified, the feelings of love that you have will not have any legitimate base and will be at least partially false. Plus, eventually you will go crazy.

  Christopher Durang

  Crazy, Feelings, Justified

  Christopher Durang (1987). “The Marriage of Bette and Boo”, p.93, Grove Press

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