Modernity, the child of the Enlightenment, failed when it became apparent that the good society cannot be achieved by unaided reason.

An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

Our country is being radically altered, step by step, by Justices who are not following any law.

The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law.

No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we must ask that our judges adhere.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

[The current governing judicial philosophy is:] If you want something passionately enough, it is guaranteed by the Constitution. No need to fiddle around gathering votes from recalcitrant citizens.

Darwin says people like you need to die.” (Carrow)

As long as Simon didn’t think about the past, the past couldn’t hurt him. But, increasingly, he couldn’t help himself.There was too much pleasure in the pain.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

You go for it. All the stops are out. Caution is to the wind, and you're battling with everything you have. That's the real fun of the game.

The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.

Honestly, I don't like to brag about myself, but I really think I'm the only boxer who came out better from a Hopkins fight.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

The sobbing of the weak today is the sobbing of the victims of neoliberal policies. They consist of billions of people all over the world.