“When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?”

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Oui interview (1979)
Context: Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.

2015, Remarks to the Kenyan People (July 2015)
Context: Every country and every culture has traditions that are unique and help make that country what it is. But just because something is a part of your past doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t mean that it defines your future. [... ] Just because something is a tradition doesn’t make it right.

Variant: Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth

Part 5, Chapter 1 (p. 228)
Artifact (1985)

Variant: Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Source: City of Ashes

Source: Ashes

Source: Along for the Ride