“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist”
Oscar Wilde
“Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.”
Albert Einstein
“There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.”
Martin Luther
“So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the 15th century.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex.”
Daniel S. Greenberg
“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
Leon Trotsky
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