Top 41 Posner Quotes
#1. Richard A. Posner is an extraordinary person. If he did not exist, it would be hard to believe that he could. ( ... ) He writes with a flair that puts most journalists to shame and a depth of knowledge that puts most professors to shame.
Alan Ryan
#2. The Kouzes-Posner First Law of Leadership: If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message. Leaders
James M. Kouzes
#3. 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 is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.
Richard Posner
#4. It is not the practice of the Holy See to disclose information on the religious discipline of members of the clergy or religious according to canon law.
Gerald Posner
#5. I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
Richard Posner
#6. I do not apologize for these terms or, more generally, for discussing judicial thinking in a vocabulary alien to most judges and lawyers. Judicial behavior cannot be understood in the vocabulary that judges themselves use, sometimes mischievously. (11)
Richard A. Posner
#7. The outstanding examples are still Cardozo's Nature of the Judicial Process18
Richard A. Posner
#8. My smiles don't result from good things, they result in good things.
Mike Posner
#9. No matter how much time I spend here I can't escape the whiteness of my skin, the way I stand out no matter what I do. But it's more than my skin. It's my privilege.
Jessica Posner
#10. 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 & achievement, because people see things differently
Richard Posner
#11. So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah ... sorry!"
Mike Posner
#12. Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.
Mike Posner
#13. My team and I live by 3 words: RELATE. LOVE. INSPIRE
Mike Posner
#14. But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have been based on precedent.
Richard A. Posner
#15. 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 them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
Richard Posner
#16. Ever since I was a child my reaction to the forbidden has been a stubborn desire to keep pushing: obstacles make something uncontrollably and deeply necessary.
Jessica Posner
#17. There is a whole mythology, a set of rules and issues surrounding a relationship like ours, that sneaks in uninvited.
Jessica Posner
#18. One understands why law clerks follow the Bluebook. But why a judge would direct his law clerks to do so, or even tolerate their doing so, is a mystery to me. Are judges sheep? Why should they care what kids at the Harvard Law Review consider proper abbreviation?
Richard A. Posner
#19. We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.
Richard Posner
#20. 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 let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.
Richard Posner
#21. 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.
Richard Posner
#22. They say love is supposed to set you free, but I think love binds you. It's only once you're so full of joy that you can imagine a devastation of loss.
Jessica Posner
#23. Just having a certain kind of attitude can be magic.
Matt Posner
#24. I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.
Mike Posner
#25. Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.
Richard Posner
#26. In my own eyes, I could only see how ridiculous I looked. How typical white-girl-goes-to-Africa. But in their eyes, the hair was a way to make me part of them, at least for a moment.
Jessica Posner
#27. People are just more willing to follow someone they like and trust.
Barry Z. Posner
#28. 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 God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.
Richard Posner
#29. I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.
Helaine Posner
#30. 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, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously ...
Richard Posner
#31. Space and time wouldn't let you be mine
Mike Posner
#32. Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
Richard Posner
#33. While I live my life expecting to live, others expect that they might die. The rules of the world are not the same for all of us.
Jessica Posner
#34. I think of what it means to be a teenager in America, necessarily pushing boundaries, making expected mistakes. Here there is no margin for error: a mistake, no matter how insignificant, dashes any small hopes to break the cycle of poverty. Here in Kibera the world is relentless and unforgiving.
Jessica Posner
#36. Bordoni and his wife fled to Venezuela, where he used some of the stolen money to buy a $3 million home and citizenship.103
Gerald Posner
#37. Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
Gerald Posner
#38. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.
Richard Posner
#39. Marcuse also believed that sexuality was a political., an ideological, category, not found but made.
Richard A. Posner
#40. So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.
Vladimir Posner
#41. Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output
Richard Posner
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