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Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.
Oskar Schindler
Authority is when you have every cause to terminate someone, and then you don't.
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There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
Thomas Jefferson
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I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.
Julie Kenner
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Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.
William Carey
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It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will.
Ruth Hurmence Green
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If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.
Greg Koukl
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Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns
Charles Simeon
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Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions.
Hideki Yukawa
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Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.
Shai Linne
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Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
John Calvin
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The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
E. P. Thompson
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Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Thomas Keneally
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There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.
Calvin Coolidge
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Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
Khalil Gibran
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The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.
Bernard Berenson
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Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?
Laura Marling
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There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Robert M. Hutchins
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Our justification hinges on a risen life, present in us now because Christ is present with us now.
Paul F. M. Zahl
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Here seems now no reasonable justification for continuing any civil plutonium program.
Jinzaburo Takagi
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
Jorge Luis Borges
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[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.
Christopher Hitchens
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The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel.
Martin Luther
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I wish I had fair justification for not being as informed as I should be, but I don't.
Joaquin Phoenix
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The truest interpretations are those with the best justification.
Bernard Ramm
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
Leo Tolstoy
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There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.
Simone de Beauvoir
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It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.
Adolph Saphir
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Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Ashley Montagu
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I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.
Richard Wall
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The only justification for looking down on anyone is that you're going to stop and pick them up.
Wynton Marsalis
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There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
Ayn Rand
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Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.
Garry Kasparov
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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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Something having been done just about everywhere just about always is no kind of justification for doing it now.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
Albert Einstein
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You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.
Desmond Tutu
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
Terence McKenna
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Hope likes justification, but can do without.
Mason Cooley
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ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.
Ambrose Bierce
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There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.
George Henry Lewes
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It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
Miguel Syjuco
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It is my necessary breath of life to understand and expression is the only justification of life that I can feel without prodding.
Ruth Benedict
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Because we find somethings distasteful is not justification enough for us to deem them criminal.
Moby
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The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.
Jesse Jackson
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If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.
Ernest Sosa