Justification Quotes
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man`s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, life has no direction, no meaning and no justification.
Adlin Sinclair
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Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the...
Dale E. Turner
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[On refusing to grant clemency to condemned killer Stanley Tookie Williams] After studying the evidence, searching the history, listening to the arguments and wrestling with the profound consequences, I could find no justification for granting clemency. T...
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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[Quoted by Ted Morgan in the book "FDR", Simon & Schuster, 1985] I made one great mistake in my life - when I signed the letter to [President Franklin Delano Roosevelt] recommending that atom bombs be made . . . but there was some justification - the dang...
Albert Einstein
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Words are just words and nobody told these people to do anything like that, ... The leadership of the Christian Knights regrets the burning of the churches and regrets anybody`s taken their ideas and tried to use them as justification for their actions.
Gary White
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What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.
Anne Hawley
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This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.
John L. Lewis
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These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people.
Jacques Chirac
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There`s no reason in the world to suggest there was any justification for this turning into a knife fight.
Armondo Cima
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There is very little other justification for him to go before the grand jury now, unless he feels the need to re-explain something to them so they don`t do something that puts him in legal jeopardy,
Anna Turley
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Andi Burr
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There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
Andrew Schepers
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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.
Alex Eckelberry
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Steinbeck has drought and dust in the wrong parts of Oklahoma, ... And some Oklahomans and Texans didn`t like the rather primitive image he created of the Joads. They felt, with some justification, it propounded an Okie stereotype.
James Gregory
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
Wellington Mara
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Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don`t
Ann Andrews
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On the justification for the war, it wasn`t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
Stephen Harper
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No: war material is life-saving for one`s own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Alex Zwart
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Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.
Dario Fo
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Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Aicha El Wafi
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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
Amani Abeid Karume
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I don`t understand the justification for it. It`s a $14 billion cut on social mobility in this country.
Bill Simmons
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I don`t see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.
Don Young
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Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.
Alvin Lievsay
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
Andrea Cerutti
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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual`s sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldier...
Kate Adie
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But at the same time, the commonplace statement about them is true: every character is the hero of his own story. Each has a justification for his actions that is convincing to him. It`s fun to give these people voices.
Thomas Perry
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All too often, academic departments defend their territory with the passion of cornered animals, though with far less justification.
Alain Vais
