The more people who take part in a ritual, the more…

Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned.

— Dalai Lama

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in…

— Lauryn Hill

Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but…

— Richard Hamming

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of…

— Mary Garden

I think violence can never be justified. At the same time, nobody’s culture or beliefs should be insulted, that’s not something I can accept…

— Abbas Kiarostami

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus

The forces of immorality and Marxism and evil count on one thing: Us not showing up. And often, they're justified in that. And I…

— Matt Shea

Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling…

— Murray Bookchin

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity.…

— Calvin Coolidge

“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then…

— Mario Puzo

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed…

— Madeleine Albright

Moses became America's true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

— Bruce Feiler

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open…

— Anonymous

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the…

— Kate Millett

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it…

— Bill Maher