“The measures we take harm people, but they are imperative.”

Source: See For the Record: Selected Statements 1977-1980 https://books.google.com.br/books?id=wcx4AAAAMAAJ, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.

Amir al-Mu'minin's message of condolence to the victims of an earthquake in Paktika and Khost https://ocs.gov.af/en/news_details/1122, 22 June 2022

TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
Source: The Judging Eye (2009)

Urging for peace, harmony, and reconciliation, quoted on Daily News (February 5, 2016), "Work for true national reconciliation" http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2016/02/05/local/work-true-national-reconciliation

Interview by Alec Mouhibian in The Free Radical (November 2004) http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Mouhibian/Nathaniel_Branden_Interview,_Pt_3.shtml
Context: One of the mistakes that Rand makes is that after she condemns a belief or an action, she goes on to tell you the psychology of the person who did it, as if she knows. I focus my judgment on the action and not on the person. My primary interest is: do I admire or dislike this behavior? And there, judgment is important for me. People often attribute all kinds of things to another person, without ever knowing where that person’s coming from. Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.

Source: The Cocktail Party

Polish: Skok z szóstego piętra jest z całą pewnością bardziej szkodliwy niż zażywanie heroiny, aczkolwiek nie zakazujemy budowy szóstych pięter.
Source: drug legalization debate, 13 November 2007.

J. Reuben Clark, as recorded by D. Michael Quinn, J. Reuben Clark: The Church Years. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1983, p. 24

On the killing of al-Queda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden by US military forces, as quoted in "Dalai Lama suggests Osama bin Laden's death was justified" by Mitchell Landsberg, in The Los Angeles Times (4 May 2011) http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0504-dalai-lama-20110504,0,7229481.story.