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«The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.»
«Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.»
«Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.»
«There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution»
«Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.»
«To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.»
«Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.»
«Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.»
«The ends justify the means»
«Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure»

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