The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging around in 18th Century dictionaries to figure out what 'cruel and unusual punishment' meant or what… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a fundamental mistake,… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and go digging… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible. — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny -… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship.… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
