William J Brennan Jr Quotes

#1. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#2. I'm sensitive, and I don't ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable.

Chris Pine

#3. Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#4. Yes, he was the one who fueled the rumors after that. I could never have done what he himself did, convincing and persuading the world that he was indeed the Hero. I don't know if he himself believed it, but he made others think that he must be the one.

Brandon Sanderson

#5. Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#6. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#7. No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#8. We are not an assimilative, homogeneous society, but a facilitative, pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else's unfamiliar or even repellant practice because the same tolerant impulse protects our own idiosyncrasies.
--Michael H. v. Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989)

William J. Brennan Jr.

#9. We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#10. We live in an age of progress," announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. "It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?" "Some

L. Frank Baum

#11. Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#12. Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#13. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#14. None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

Marsha Blackburn

#16. The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#17. If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#18. Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#19. Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#20. We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#21. The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#22. You can grow apart from people very quickly.

Rachael Leigh Cook

#23. Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

William J. Brennan Jr.

#24. Legalism is looking to something besides Jesus Christ in order to be acceptable and clean before God.

Timothy Keller

#25. I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.

Miranda July