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«A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.»
Author: Anita Brookner
(Author, Historian)
| Keywords:
come to light, duplicity, engage, flat, justification, self-justification
«If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion»
«A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.»
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
(Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
architectural, justification, sculptural, structure
«Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification»
Author: Malcolm Wallop
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
deny, grant, justification, must not, Not now, rights, U.S. government, using
«Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.»
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
eroticism, justification, sovereignty, statement
«It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power»
Author: Robert Mugabe
| Keywords:
blacks, justification, oppress, oppressed, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.»
«Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| Keywords:
complex, complexity, dealing, inefficient, justification, mental energy, unnecessary, waste of energy, waste of time
«ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
accuse, accuses, accusing, affirm, Affirmed, affirming, commonly, guilt, justification, T, The Accused, wronged
«An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
an explanation, cause, explanation, justification
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