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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

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.


Anthony Weiner


#class #court #debt #debt limit #financial

If a radical devolution of powers was possible, it would have been done before. The assumption of states' rights is gone. There's no support for it in the Supreme Court and there's no support for it in public opinion.


James Q. Wilson


#been #before #court #done #gone

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.


Edward Gibbon


#desire #female #friendship #happiness #her

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.


John Marshall Harlan


#civil #civil rights #color #guaranteed #his

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.


Abraham Joshua Heschel


#importance #supreme #unless

Identifying the flaw in the US philosophical roots requires that we move beyond the intellectual and emotional climate in which the Constitution was conceived and adopted. The meanings of concepts and words change with use, and even the Supreme Court has admitted that the original perspective of the American social contract has been altered by the passage of time.


David E. Wilkins


#philosophy #supreme-court #change

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.


Terry Pratchett


#moral #morality #nature #supreme-being #nature

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.


Charles Baudelaire


#certainty #committing #delight #evil #found

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.


Joseph Conrad


#does #effective #every #existence #find






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