No cause, no God, no abstract idea can justify the mass slaughter of innocents. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“[T]he end cannot justify the means; but if there are no other means, and the end is necessary...” — James Blish Copy Share Image
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice. — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
I never proclaimed to be perfect, and I don't justify a mistake that I made. You own it. — Mark Jackson Copy Share Image
Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of… — Witold Walczak Copy Share Image
As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it. — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think there are certain crimes which the law cannot touch, and which therefore, to some extent, justify private revenge. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout… — Charles Kimball Copy Share Image
People may like what third-party candidates say, because often they are the only ones saying anything, but they usually won't vote for… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Violence by the defenders will be used by the putschists to justify overwhelming repression which they want to use anyhow. It will… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
You could ask: Why are people attracted to narratives that justify the terrible things that we're doing to the planet? Why are… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Nature is indeed a specious ward, nay, there is a great deal in it if it is properly understood and applied, but… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Whenever Muslim women protest and ask for their rights, they are silenced with the argument that the laws are justified under Islam.… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Some who support [more] coercive strategies assume that children will run wild if they are not controlled. However, the children for whom… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
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