More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies.
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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
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If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means 'to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal' would bring terrible retribution.
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The result justifies the deed.
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The result justifies the deed. (Exitus acta probat)
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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.
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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.
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The end never really justifies the meanness.
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He declares himself guilty who justifies himself before accusation.
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Romans 4:5:
However, to anyone who does not work but trusts God who justifies the ungodly, their faith is credited as righteousness.
(NIV)
But to one who, not working [by the Law], trusts (believes fully) in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited to him as righteousness (the standing acceptable to God).
(AMP)
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
(KJV)
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Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
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