"Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession……" — William J. Brennan
"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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43 Quotes by William J. Brennan
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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…
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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights…
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Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient…
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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…
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit…
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If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression…
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Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory…
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The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the…
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With respect to the death penalty, I believe that a majority of the Supreme Court will one day accept that…
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the…
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It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own,…
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Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that...may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp…
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More Antithetical Quotes
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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are…
— John Bolton
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The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the…
— Lawrence Kasdan
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little,…
— Susan Sontag
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The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity…
— Lord Byron
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Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional…
— Rick Santorum
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Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose…
— Bill Maher
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to…
— Unknown Author
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The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began -…
— Carl Sagan
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play,…
— John Thorn
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