Quotes: Justification

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

If I have any justification for having lived it’s simply, I’m nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There’s some value in that.

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample justification.

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

This is true only because the purposes and objectives of the Committee for Industrial Organization find economic, social, political and moral justification in the hearts of the millions who are its members and the millions more who support it.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual’s sovereignty.