Thomas Jefferson
Politician, Founding Father
"There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety."
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Justification
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John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns."
Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns."
Khalil Gibran
Poet, Writer
"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets"
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification."
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"I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification."
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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."
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"There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future."
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"Division of labor is a justification for sloth."
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"There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil."
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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."
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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."
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"Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime."
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"It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion."
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"Terror breeds terror. I am completely opposed to both state terror and those who respond in a similar way. There is no justification for any group that associates itself with the Left to kill innocents and encourage suicide bombings."
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"The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model."
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"The only justification of rebellion is success."
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"They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!"
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"If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do."
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