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“This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.”

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Alex Kozinski, born on July 23, 1950, is an influential American federal judge. He has made significant contributions to the field of law, particularly in the areas of constitutional interpretation and intellectual property law. more

“The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.”

“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.”

Looks Process Magic Reviews Judicial Wands Magic Wands

Author:Alex Kozinski

“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”

Philosophy Shows Divine Hegel

Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

“It is the shared bad faith by which individuals help each other sustain the illusion that they can shirk their spiritual destiny by joining the public.”

Helping Spiritual Individual Destiny Illusion Joining Helping Each Other Shirk

Book:Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

“For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).”

Art Sex Sports Demand Mass Entertainment Boredom Transformed Spectators Involvement Immune Herds Relieved

Author:Merold Westphal

“We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.”

Thinking America Behinds Planets Blue Exploration Frontiers Blue Planet

Author:David Helvarg

“Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.”

Remember Office Deeds Administration Hung Good Deeds Good Science Epa

Author:David Helvarg

“It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did not work; yet we have lights today.”

Ifs Way Said Light Today Failure Bulbs Light Bulb

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Stop thinking of failing.”

Thinking Failing Failure

Author:Benjamin Carson

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