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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. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. ↗

— Ralph Chaplin

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

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People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

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Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism. ↗

— Manmohan Singh

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True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. ↗

— May Sarton

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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing. ↗

— George Carey

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The law condemns and punishes only actions within certain definite and narrow limits; it thereby justifies, in a way, all similar actions that lie outside those limits. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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