It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

There is no gambling like politics.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

A precedent embalms a principle.

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Industry need not wish.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

I don’t see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I’m skinny, as if that’s supposed to make me happy.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.