Fahrenheit 9/11  - Quotes

 American Soldier:
I make anywhere between two and three thousand a month. A Halliburton employee out here driving a bus can make between eight and ten thousand a month. Explain that one to me. For 40 hours a week. Driving the same two-and-half-mile route. Go figure. Where's the justification in that?
 



Closet Land  - Quotes

 Victim:
Your aim is to humiliate and debase the human being. There is no justification for cruelty.
Interrogator:
Our aim is to rid society of negative influences. This end justifies certain unorthodox means.
 

Reality Bites  - Quotes

 Troy Dyer:
[On answering machine] At the beep, please leave your name, number, and a brief justification for the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma, and we'll get back to you
 



Noam Chomsky  - Quotes

 I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom. 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 [P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification. 

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Wilhelm Reich  - Quotes

 You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable. 

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Daniel Gilbert  - Quotes

 Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 Incurable diseases will eventually

force mankind to justify

disruptive nanotech and genetic engineering.
 

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