#supreme

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#allowing #appetites #brings #death #deprives

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. ↗

— Cleveland Amory

#expensive #foreign #hard #husband #like

You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It's that simple. Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out or else it will be crushed by the tyranny of wickedness. ↗

— Bernard Schaffer

#gay-marriage #human-rights #supreme-court #marriage

Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#consists #enemy #excellence #fighting #resistance

If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#close #court #election #face #insane

The felonious five in their Supreme Court decision never said Gore did anything improperly in Florida. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#court #court decision #decision #did #five

The Florida Supreme Court wanted all the legal votes to be counted. The United States Supreme Court, on the other hand, did not want all the votes to be counted. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#court #did #florida #hand #legal

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#center #creation #earth #ego #expression

The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half a million votes less nationally than Gore. It was nothing more than a bloodless coup and that's when I really started paying attention. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#bloodless #bush #coup #court #even

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place. ↗

— Larry Flynt

#case #communities #community #court #individual