Richard Posner Quotes

13 quotes in 339 categories

• A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking…
• I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
• As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about…
• 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 children,…
• 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…
• 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 was…
• If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that…
• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.
• Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
• MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal.…
• I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But…
• 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 here…
• Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and…

Browse Richard Posner Quotes by Category