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“Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action.”

Action Pure Violent Motive Purity Justify Purification

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.”

Needs Trying Differences Class Mass Equality Former Justify

Book:Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings

“Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.”

People Way Kind Sometimes Enjoy Wealth Pay Huge Involved Cost News Management Dollars Curious Corporate Justify Ceo Bizarre Salary Livelihood

Author:Eddie Vedder

“I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults.”

People Ifs Numbers Crime Adults Leaving Violent Selling Justify Pot Ceo Salary Skirts Violent Crimes

Author:Eddie Vedder

“O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.”

Heart Art Use Eye Sadness My Heart Sad Lays Tongue Wounds Justify Unkindness

Book:The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Venus and Adonis. The rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. The passionate pilgrim. A lover's complaint. Titus Andronicus. Romeus and Juliet. Appendix, glossarial index. Vol. 10

“My real purpose in telling middle-school students stories was to practice telling stories. And I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. And the way I would justify it to the head teacher if he came in or to any parents who complained was, look, I'm telling these great stories because they're part of our cultural heritage. I did believe that.”

Ifs Way Believe Looks Real Stories School Purpose Parent Practice Teacher Middle Students Models Storytelling Justify Heritage Telling Stories Middle School Cultural Heritage Odyssey Iliad

Author:Philip Pullman

“No one is wise enough, no nation is important enough, no human interest is precious enough, to justify the wholesale destruction and murder which constitute the science of war.”

Humans Important War Enough Nations Peace Interest Wise Destruction Murder Justify Wholesale

Book:I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes

Source: I Speak for Myself: The Autobiography of John Haynes Holmes

“Through a particular magical practice it is possible to modify the being that has only one element into a being with four elements and to give it an immortal spirit. But a magicial will seldom intervene without good reason, because he is responsible and must justify his actions before Divine Providence.”

Giving Reason Action Spirit Practice Four Magic Divine Particular Elements Responsible Justify Immortal Mysticism Providence Divine Providence Four Elements

Author:Franz Bardon

“You can never really justify wages in the entertainment business, but it is what it is.”

Entertainment Justify Wages It Is What It Is Entertainment Business

Author:Gary Lineker

“You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.”

Christian Leadership Church Sin Justify Rationalize

Author:Johnny Hunt

“During World War II, Joseph Stalin was once asked by an American writer, according to Professor Dean Russell, how he could justify conscripting all the property of all the people for use by the government to fight the war. Stalin answered by asking why they considered it more immoral and illogical to conscript lifeless property than to conscript life itself, as was being done in the United States and all other capitalistic countries. His American challenger had no answer, because there was no answer.”

“It is evil to justify killing (unborn babies) by the happy outcome of eternity for the one killed. This same justification could be used to justify killing one-year olds, or any heaven-bound believer for that matter. The Bible asks the question: "Shall we sin that grace may abound?" (Romans 6:1) And: "Shall we do evil that good may come?" (Romans 3:8). In both cases the answer is a resounding NO. It is presumption to step into God's place and try to make the assignments to heaven or to hell. Our duty is to obey God, not to play God.”

“If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.”

Ifs Action Business Needed Justify Sophisticated Calculations

Author:Robert Heller

“Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.”

“Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.”

Age Existence Modern University Justify Criteria Cathedrals Utilitarian Modern Age

Book:Nice Work

Source: Nice Work

“The ends do not justify the means”

Mean Ends Justify Warrior Of The Light Ends Justify The Means

Author:Seth

“Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.”

Children Belief Sex Religious Teaching Research Abuse Justify Contempt Child Abuse Breeding Religious Belief Abused Children

Author:Mary Garden

“Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.”

Source: The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces

“Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their “discernment.”

People Needs Christian Names Sin Etc Justify Bitterness Virtuous Complaints Discernment Complainers

Author:Bill Johnson

“Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

Men Use Speech Injustice Justify Pens Doings Parole Wrong Doings

Author:Voltaire

“Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.”

People Needs Angry Theology Sinner Justify

Author:Bill Johnson

“It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.”

Justify Glorify Sanctify

Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

“I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.”

People Mind Humans Important Liberty Accepting Starting Justify Reduction Free Society Starting Point Right To Life

Author:John Howard

“I don't spend a lot of time judging anyone I play. Even if their function in the script is to be the villain, I concentrate on what their perspective of the events is. Not even to justify them.”

Ifs Play Events Judging Perspective Function Scripts Justify Villain

Author:Peter Sarsgaard

“I think that what happened is that we grew up with the Holocaust within us. It turned us into harsh, emotionally incapable people who have become blind to what they are doing to other people. A lot of times, Holocaust abuse justifies terrible things done to the Palestinians. And you have to realize that what is going on is terrible, and that we are responsible, and we have to take responsibility - even if we are not completely responsible.”

“With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.”

People Feels Firsts Film Actors Opportunity Company Roles Havens Arms First Time Complicated Surface Justify Relish Ensemble

Author:Cate Blanchett

“We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”

Mean Ends Enough Universe Pay Attention Achieve Particular Concerned Determine Contrary Pay Attention Justify Good Enough Anxious Psycho

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method?”

Ifs Mean Ends Running Purpose Fun Realizing Late Method Lays Satisfaction Deny Practicals Too Late Breasts Justify Tape Stopping Ends Justify The Means Satisfaction In Life

Author:Walt Kelly

“There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.”

World Together Evil Race This World Prejudice Errors Cruelty Justify Abomination Evil Things Baseness

Author:H. G. Wells

“If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.”

Ifs Past Cases Justify Grievance Invoke

Book:Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes

Source: Hating Whitey: And Other Progressive Causes

“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”

People Past Nations Term History Produce Historical Contradiction Justify Historian

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.”

Firsts May Doe Christ Acting Effects Worship Shots Rounds Justify Abandon Pretending Mars Altars Bishops Flocks

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one”

People World Believe Country Home Next Speak Term Sun Violence Rounds Justify Divides Righteous Spinning

Author:Jackson Browne

“The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”

Literature Individual Effort Existence Eternal Eternity Individuality Justify Bondage Totalitarianism Totalitarian Regimes

Book:The Ordeal of Change

Source: The Ordeal of Change

“What happened after 9/11 - and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not - was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue. Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war the neocons wanted to fight, for all the wrong reasons....The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it.”