Abe Fortas Quotes

#1. Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Ellen G. White

#2. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

Donald A. Norman

#3. Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

Abe Fortas

#4. In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

Abe Fortas

#5. Government ... may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another ... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality ...

Abe Fortas

#6. I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Junot Diaz

#7. For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great.

Abe Fortas

#8. The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

Ted Hughes

#9. He didn't remember ever being less weird than he was right now. In fact, as far as he could tell he had always been more or less exactly as weird as this. if not more so.

Meg Rosoff

#10. The predominant view was that budgets should be balanced and money supplies tightened. This, as we know today, only made matters worse.

Timothy Snyder

#11. I'm not mentally ill," she insisted, fidgeting in her chair. "I'm just very neurotic and I'm always falling in love with assholes.

Pat Conroy

#12. The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.

Abe Fortas

#13. I opted out of the band.

Lou Gramm

#14. It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.

Abe Fortas

#15. She had a pretty name but she knew she wasn't pretty.

Jonathan Maberry

#16. Dissent and dissenters have no monopoly on freedom. They must tolerate opposition. They must accept dissent from their dissent.

Abe Fortas

#17. Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

Abe Fortas