“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.” FirstsStatesValuesTermWrittenParticularExpressionMoralityFunctionAbsolutesJustifyAmendmentsFreedom Of SpeechFirst AmendmentProtectivePropriety Author:William O. Douglas
“We document, explain, justify, construct, organize: these are good things, but we do not succeed in coming to the whole. But we may as well calm down: construction is not absolute. Our virtue is this: by cultivating the exact we have laid the foundations for a science of art, including the unknown X.” WellsMayArtWholeVirtueSucceedAbsolutesFoundationGood ThingsIncludingCalmJustifyConstructionDocumentsOrganizeConstructsCultivatingCalm Down Author:Paul Klee
“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing... The teacher presents himself to his students as their necessary opposite; by considering their ignorance absolute, he justifies his own existence.” KnowsExistenceTeacherStudentsIgnoranceConceptsOppositesAbsolutesJustifyConsideringSelf KnowledgeBankingKnowledgeable Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition
“The viciousness, the lack of rules, is so absolute within the leftist framework that the ends justify the means, that my media is very much organized to try and go toe-to-toe with those people to say we know what your motivations are, we know how vicious you are, but we are not afraid of you.” PeopleKnowsTryingMeanEndsMotivationKnow HowMediaAbsolutesOrganizedJustifyNot AfraidToesViciousFrameworkLeftistsEnds Justify The Means Author:Andrew Breitbart
“I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.” YearsMindMadeStatesLiteratureExistenceNeededAbsolutesThirtyJustifyState Of MindThirty Years Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants would be provisional phases, annihilators of the past turned to face the future, and that beyond the episodic, the present, the circumstantial, we were nobody.” MomentsWould BePastFacesAbsolutesInstantJustifyPhasesContaining Book:Selected Non-fictions Source: Selected Non-fictions