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William J. Brennan has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow…
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
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Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that when the…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our…
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by…
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts…
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme…
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we…
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For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is…
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The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms in the…
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological, the objective…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded in some…
— George H. Smith
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary…
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