Source: Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Speech at a farewell function for outgoing United States Ambassador David Lyon, 15 July 2005 (excerpts)
“The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it”
Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
“Terrorism is not justified with anything, but it’s explained with everything.”
Hiedra (March 2015) https://issuu.com/revistahiedra/docs/hiedra_issuu/53
“Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.”
Source: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum
OSCON 2002
Context: It's insane. It's extreme. It's controlled by political interests. It has no justification in the traditional values that justify legal regulation. And we've done nothing about it. We're bigger than they are. We've got rights on our side. And we've done nothing about it. We let them control this debate. Here's the refrain that leads to this: They win because we've done nothing to stop it.
“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
Source: The Blind Assassin
In Quest of Democracy (1991)
“There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 2, “Probability and Coincidence” (p. 44)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
Satya, January, 2001 http://www.satyamag.com/jan01/newkirk.html.
On animal research and activism against it
