“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.” PeopleMenFirstsHumansMayTwoWarMomentsFormLeftGenerationsObjectsParticularGuitarCrowdsPopsJustifyGatheringCravingSlidesSurveillanceEmbodimentLoneWoodstockMonterey Book:A Visit From the Goon Squad Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad
“Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it in the face of such misery. We may need to wake up our conscience and our conscience must force us to act.” ThinkingNeedsMayFacesForceNationsBecomingConscienceWake UpMiseryJustifyFatigueDonors Author:Kofi Annan
“Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means - to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal - would bring terrible retributions.” PeopleIfsMenMayMeanEndsWholeGovernmentLawOrderLibertyTeachTeacherCrimeExampleTerribleIllConvictionCriminalsEvery ManCommitSecureAdministrationJustifyAnarchyContemptInvitesContagiousRetributionLiberty And JusticeCriminal LawEnds Justify The MeansConflicting Opinions Author:Louis D. Brandeis
“The artist's imagination may wander far from nature. But as long as it is a living, moving power in his brain, isn't it just as real as any other natural phenomenon? The artist justifies his existence only when he can transform his imagination into truth.” MayLongRealMovingArtistImaginationNaturalExistenceBrainWanderJustifyPhenomenonNatural Phenomena Author:Bill Vaughan