#justify

But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. ↗

— Marco Rubio

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

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It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

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Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. ↗

— Friedrich Engels

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...Imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears--would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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