#supreme

When the Chief Justice read me the oath,' he [FDR] later told an adviser, 'and came to the words "support the Constitution of the United States" I felt like saying: "Yes, but it's the Constitution as I understand it, flexible enough to meet any new problem of democracy--not the kind of Constitution your Court has raised up as a barrier to progress and democracy. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#democracy #flexibility #roosevelt #supreme-court #art

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

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

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

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

— Sun Tzu

#consists #enemy #excellence #fighting #resistance

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. ↗

— Jo Brand

#bore #children #death #effort #funny

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

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#crazy #supreme #supreme being