Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.
We played a gig and we had a song that was offensive to people of the Jewish persuasion, and we led off with it, and they were offended by it, and that was that.
If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.
You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper.
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
However, when the privilege depends solely on the broad, undifferentiated claim of public interest in the confidentiality of such conversations, a confrontation with other values arises.
To hold that the act of homosexual sodomy is somehow protected as a fundamental right would be to cast aside millennia of moral teaching.
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.
