Richard Posner

I was an advocate of the deregulation movement and I made - along with a lot of other smart people - a…

— Richard Posner

The Constitution has to be interpreted loosely, otherwise it becomes a straitjacket. You can't interpret it literally. You can pretend to, and…

— Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women -…

— Richard Posner

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

— Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old…

— Richard Posner

Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted…

— Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity.…

— Richard Posner

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is…

— Richard Posner

Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed.…

— Richard Posner

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…

— Richard Posner

If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does…

— Richard Posner

I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous…

— Richard Posner

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool…

— Richard Posner

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,

— Richard Posner

The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences…

— Richard Posner

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler…

— Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its…

— Richard Posner

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive…

— Richard Posner