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206 Jurist Quotes

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.

Search Bottom But Nothing
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My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Independent Person Own Lady
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As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

Judge Desire Matter Rule
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There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.

Constitution Order Protect Privacy
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A law can be both economic folly and constitutional.

Folly Law Economic Constitutional
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If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

People Draw Agree Realize
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Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes?

State Wish Public Accede
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I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Accept Respect Term Time
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Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning.

Text Adopt Modern Consult
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My view is regardless of whether you think prohibiting abortion is good or whether you think prohibiting abortion is bad, regardless of how you come out on that, my only point is the Constitution does not say anything about it. It leaves it up to democratic choice.

Whether Good View Point
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Originalism is sort of subspecies of textualism. Textualism means you are governed by the text. That's the only thing that is relevant to your decision, not whether the outcome is desirable, not whether legislative history says this or that. But the text of the statute.

Relevant Decision History Statue
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Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything - it can stop the Vietnam War, it can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything.

Power Corrupt Stop Felt
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If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Today Courage Wisdom. Suffer
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Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.

Right Carry Weapon Purpose
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Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction.

Right Good Wise People
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The only way to eliminate any government choice on what art is worthwhile, what art isn't worthwhile, is to get the government totally out of the business of funding.

Government Choice Worthwhile Art
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Winning and losing, that's never been my objective. It's my hope that in the fullness of time, the majority of the court will come to see things as I do.

Time Come Been Winning
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I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

Women Progress Community Progress
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The decisive means for politics is violence.

Decisive Means Politics Violence
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

Accomplishment Achieved Act Again
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Above Characterized Disenchantment Fate
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One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Decisive Feeling Passion Politician
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Base Calling Crumble Face
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.

Age Computation Even Good
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Boards Boring Hard Politics
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The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.

Facts His Inconvenient Mean
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Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

Base Calling Crumble He
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It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Evil Follow Good Good And Evil
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

Apparatus Bureaucratic Compares Developed
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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Another Complementary Conviction Ethic
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

Above Career Elevate Even
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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Either Lives Off Politics
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Chance Context Even Impose
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

Administration Bureaucratic Continuity Costs
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It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

Astonishing Become Despite Easily
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.

Again Attained Certainly Experience
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.

Appeared Communist Conception Crude
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All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.'

Analysis Assumption Being Conduct
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

Exact Important Laws Measure
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Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Beings Culture Finite Human
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All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Always Cultural Knowledge May
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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Artistic Bears Concrete Description
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Age Analysis Consider Cultural
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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

Analysis Causal Explanation Judgment
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Above Act Avoidance Breaking
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The modern view of criminal justice, broadly, is that public concern with morality or expediency decrees expiation for the violation of a norm; this concern finds expression in the infliction of punishment on the evil doer by agents of the state, the evil doer, however, enjoying the protection of a regular procedure.

Agents Concern Criminal Criminal Justice
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Among Distribution Either Groups
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Confines Exists Hall Integrity
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