I've been collecting these for awhile... There's no order, just categories.

On Rap Music: You can't disregard an entire genre, but you can recognize it for what it is - untalented people playing the best they could.
It's not up for discussion, it's just a reality.
Every place is nice, but there are nicer places. When you get to heaven you'll know it.
What kind of twisted, sad chess game is this?
My life was gonna be more than a neat trip.
The fact that you have minimum impact just means you're a good camper.
I don't care how much money you have, if you're not happy with yourself, it's nothing. It's worse than nothing.
Money is a motherfucker, it taints and hurts people.
I was just running on sheer stupidity and youth.
The weirdest shit I was too fucking loaded to remember...
Straight lines or chaos, nothing inbetween, really.
...These awarenesses will shoot themselves down.
The mind makes me want to cry.
You have to be careful how you kick a dog.
I will bid on everything on eBay, collect it all, and own the world. Soon I will bid on countries. This is just the beginning. People laughed at Hitler... - Mien Father
I'd like to get some, but right now I'm financially embarassed.
I always could talk shit, I always could, and that's the only thing that kept me alive.
I break things up; I fraction things off; I keep on the same path; I could talk forever... it makes the mundane enjoyable.
On Smith College education: It's not 'question, answer,' it's 'concept, ponder.'
Sometimes in advertising you can't be confused by the facts.
Come on Daryl, you've got to factor these things out and discover reality.
You're asking for trouble in a very simple way; you're combining all the bad things that could happen.
You have to learn to fail beautifully.
We're dying trying to reach for the grave.
There's no better way to unleash than verbally, if you do it correctly.
On speaking to inanimate objects: That's when reality and magic switch places.
In January: My biggest argument for west versus east is that we've got the doors open and the sun is out.
A lot of money for something you hate to do still makes for an ugly day.
If you're not thinking about sex and food at your age, you're dead.
We will never get to meaningful dialogue until we put aside emotion.
I don't claim to have the skills of a writer, but I've realized that it doesn't have levels, pain and sorrow are felt the same by rich and poor.
Now when people ask me what I'm doing I tell them I'm writing a book. I am indeed writing a book, and I'm constantly staring at the things that inspire it, but I don't dare go over to the pen and paper. It takes a lot of coffee. The pay's not that great, but I've got a new night job.
On high quality food: It's the only way you can eat art.
You don't need any money; we happen to be the proud owners of hundreds of thousands of dollars!
I did get to move around people that other people couldn't get a block away from. I was at best an observer. I got along with all levels.
Do you know why I can never go back to Fresno? Cause I have no idea who I offended.
I used to keep a file and believe me, it was perfect.

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Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon
You are still the song I sing to myself when I'm alone. - Ani Difranco
On hitchiking through life: If nobody pulls over I'll walk. - Stephen Plachta
Mathematics may define the stage but language will define the players. - Margot
When you explain poetry it becomes banal. - Pablo Neruda
Ticket counters and airplanes will fly. - Bush
The revolution is like saturn, destroying its children. - Danton
It's a political trial, it has nothing to do with justice. - Phillipo
Poetry is the language of a state of crisis. - Unknown
There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. - Kenneth Grahame
This bird has flown. - The Beatles
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return. - Moulin Rouge
May your reality be constantly changing. - Unknown
Air is more kinematically viscous than water: its ratio of viscosity to density is higher. That ratio is what matters for fluid dynamics. - Scientific American
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau
The only cure for loneliness is solitude. - Marianne Moore
Man did not weave the web of life - he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself. - Chief Seattle
I do not know what I may appear to the world but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Sir Isaac Newton
No law has justified as many evils as the law of the divine. - Margot
Look withinside yourself for peace, give thanks, live life, and release. - Public Enemy (For What It's Worth)
One can find an index of reality even in insanity. - John Steinbeck
A person is smart, people are dumb, stupid, panicky animals. - Men In Black
We've got blood for a mind. - Madeline McClure
Don't think of my leaving as losing me forever, just think of it as a vacation where I never come back. - Ilsa Weishar
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. - Rita Mae Brown
Larangitis is god telling you to stop talking while you're ahead. - Margot
I can obey all of your rules and still be me. - Bjork (Unite)
Everyone knows that it is my job to pass judgement on others without looking at myself. - Adam Carola
On our boys: You have to reassure them that you love them while trying to be yourself. - Bekah
Don't throw rocks at policemen, but get the knots of law untied. - John Mayll
Knowing someone doesn't mean keeping them. - Chungking Express
My fever is minor but it is affecting slightly my brain processing. - Mrs. Wozniac
Do repeated stimulations by hand. - Mrs. Wozniac (she meant to tell our Statistics class to do repeated simulations by hand. Hilarity ensued.)
�Por que no ser� posible que las cosas que uno m�s quere se quedan para siempre con uno? - No recuerdo
Homeschooling is the difference between getting educated and educating yourself. - Lynn Douglas
That is what I love about the East Coast, even the dirty nasty parts have class. - Meredith Baku
In considering the logistic of creating an anarchistic society, one must not select only the optimal humans for the group, one must take into account the nature of the average man. - Unknown
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon
Teachers have ways of getting even; they're called grades. - Gina McMather
If Ghandi's going to hell then we're all fucked� - Ren Ren
On the United States' position as a global citizen: We contributed to poverty and HIV prevalence. - Misguided Republican speaker
Karma, the Cosmic Scorecard. - Gina McMather
Don't listen to what I say, listen to what I mean. - Gina McMather
No pressure, but I expect great things from you. - BF Samuel
Teaching us to look at ancient maps upside-down: We have to learn to cut lose our habits of mind - McMather
On Operation Iraqi Freedom: This has been the most ill conceived military operation since Custer. - Eleanor Clift
Thus far you have been adrift in the sheltered harbor of my patience. - Cobra Bubbles
A landslide starts with but a single grain of sand. I am that grain and I will make my stand. - Unknown
I do not agree entirely, which is to say, I do not disagree completely. - Waking Life
Man risks his life every time he choses, and that makes him free. - Caballos Salvajes
Favorite clothes are born of apathy. - Tom Brodett
If you ever find someone who's perfect don't nitpick at them forever. - Aurora Fields
Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. There's a serious ambiguity here. - Jay Garfield
I believe in the transformational power of liberty. - George W. Bush
You guys make me jealous and happy. - Cat Burgin
Slightly squished but still yummy is such a good philosophy. - Cat Burgin and Margot
Anything is apropriate if it's actually apropriate. - Jim Henle
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. - Louis Brandeis
To confront your own mortality is such a pain. - Garry Lehring
I don't break for stupid people. - Dave Patterson
Remember, our reputation is in your hands. (- Jim Henle) Ruin it! (- Jay Garfield)
While you are entitled to your opinion it is a wrong one. - Dave Patterson
Macs are 'perfect,' yes, but if they are not communicating... well, they're a little autistic. - Eva Juaros
On the Logic 100 test: I wonder if you're supposed to feel like you failed. - Tracy
When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff. - Cicero
When you're on the cutting edge a little bit of blood gets drawn. - Jay Henle
On whether the blood moon and the Red Sox winning the world series would signal the appoclypse: It's just baseball, it has nothing to do with the end of the world. - Alex
Crew: it's all about doing the wrong thing, but doing it together. - Nicole (Cox)
Writing arguments isn't easy, but if you want to rule the world you have to do it. Either that or use arms, but arguments are easier. - Jim Henle
Mathematics for the most part is beautiful, and elegant, and useless. - Jim Henle
It's so nice to be able to talk books with someone who talks back. - Bekah Morey
The real world is overrated. - Jim Henle
We've got three minutes to do Executive Rule. - Goldstein
I don't have to deal with the world cause I'm just five. - Cat Burgin
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. - W.H. Auden
It's always a mistake to try to read my handwriting. It's just a vague reminder that something was said. - Jay Garfield
You have a fuzzy thing on your braclet. (- Girl in Logic) Story of my life! (- Jay Garfield)
Truth is problematic - Jay Garfield
That's the history of traditional logic - hysterical screaming. - Jay Garfield
The last day of Logic: You've come far enough to be really confused. - Jake
I will be as objective according to my subjectivity as possible. - Easy
This is real America: drunk, proud, unemployed and angry. - Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Penetration isn't male, it's just pleasurable. - NR
Wisdom is acquired, not by the reading of books, but of men. - Hobbes
Knowledge joins with power to create a new reality. - Gary Lehring
What finals week makes you say: I don't wanna do no stupid fucking nothing else. - Mary Helen
Form is the ultimate reality. - Plato
Logic is the soul of language. - Jim Henle
Please accept my resignation. I don't want to beloing to any club that will accept me as a member. - Groucho Marx
My father is one big fucking paradoxical command. - Margot
Logic is what remains when the truth is taken away. - Jim Henle
On paradoxes: Another solution is that we have no coherent concept of truth. - Jim Henle
You can't take away people's right to be assholes. - Demolition Man
I have so much work to do, but I can't stop drinking! Do you wanna know why? Because I have to find a job! And a place to live, and I have to be a grownup in less than six months! � Jordyn
I want popcorn� or a girlfriend. � Cat Burgin
All I talk about now is ravioli, fabric and Bryce. - Nicole Kirtley
A while back, Dick, Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like. Books, records, films, these things matter. Call me shallow, it�s the fucking truth. � High Fidelity
My mother pays for gas, it's like a toll for being such a bitch. - Baku
You have a small, but distinct, window of opportunity to do the right thing. - My Best Friend's Wedding
On Smith College's Convocation: Anything you ever wanted to know about the female anatomy you�ll learn tonight. - A Sessionite
Life goes on. Maybe there won't be marriage, maybe there won't be sex, but by god there will be dancing. - My Best Friend's Wedding
My life is one huge, horrible Freudian slip. - Baku
What I have to ask Baku: Is that consistent or true? - Margot
I think there was a handful of relatively innocent Sunday afternoons. - Baku
If you ever get nauseous while taking Vicodin stop immediately. - Baku
I am going to pretend that I didn't write that even though it's clearly my handwriting. - Baku
The Constitution of the United States of America is a REVOLUTIONARY document in every sense of the word. It was designed to evolve, to live, and to breathe like the people that it governs. It is, ingeniously, and perhaps conversely, resilient enough to change with the times in order to meet the challenges of its third century and rigid enough to preserve the ideals that inspired its original articles and amendments. As long as we are willing to put in the work required to defend and nurture this remarkable invention of our forefathers, then I believe with all my heart that it will continue to thrive for generations to come. Without our active participation, however, the future is far from certain. For without the lifeblood of the human spirit even the greatest documents produced by humankind are only words on paper or parchment, destined to yellow and crack and eventually crumble to dust.
Yours in motherufucking revolution, Steve Earle
I need a support group for teenagers who want to change the world, don't know where to start, and are mortified that they'll fail along the way and end up working in some dismal supermarket or hideous equivilant thereof. - Margot
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were but little happy, if I could count how much. - Much Ado About Nothing
It's not what you know, it's what other people think they know. - Unknown
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost
Yeah, you saw me tomorrow, which is today now, but is really yesterday tomorrow, cause yesterday's tomorrow is not tomorrow but rather today, and tomorrow will be yesterday when we're on our way to Con! - Stephen Plachta
The press is the watchdog that sounds a warning when other rights are threatened. - Lee Epstein & Thomas G. Walker
When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe. - Thomas Jefferson
If the law protects a sucmbag like me, then it protects all of us. - Larry Flint
The dream of America as the great melting pot has not been realized for the Negro; because of his skin color he never even made it into the pot. - Lee Epstein & Thomas G. Walker
Meant for our Women's Studies professor: I studied a woman last night Ms. Schuster, can I get extra credit? - NR
I�m going to Morago�s house next week, because she hugged me and made me promise to call her. And because I want to. And �I have to pick up a book,� which is not the reason and we both know that she could just as easily send it along with Williams. It�s going to be great. I have been invited on several occasions but it has never worked out. This time it will. I will make it work. Oh that�s a bit creepy. If she weren�t God I wouldn�t have to be so creepy. - Baku
I'm gonna be the Hugh Hefner of the lesbian world. - NR
On stealing medical supplies from a hospital room: It's like gambling, you have to know when to stop. - NR
On the fact that some people are pissed that Ani's newer music isn't as 'gay': This isn't your own personal porno, it's someone's art - you're privelidged to enjoy it, so fuck the hell off. - Arielle Marks
For me, white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own. - Peggy McIntosh
What is a lesbian? A lesbian is the rage of all women condensed to the point of explosion. - Radicalesbians
Think about yourself that way. What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? - Bernice Johnson Reagon
The family is the essential teacher of inequality. - Anne Koedt
We're silly, you know. It's cute. It's sickening. - NR
Democracy is the characteristic political form of capitalism. - Rueschemeyer, Stephens, Stephens
Reality is complex. - Ronald Inglehart
Any right-minded theory should hold that all societies are equally likely to be democratic. The problem is that tailoring a theory to fit a given ideology may produce a theory that does not fit reality, and consequently predictions will eventually go wrong; the theory will provide misleading guidance to those who are trying to cope with democratization in the real world. - Ronald Inglehart
In Russia, communists and nationalists call liberals "bolsheviks"; liberals call communists "fascists"; and every party calls itself "centrist." - Steven Fish
While Protestant individualism and its contingent democratic politics initially succored the modernized industrial order, once this order �has come into being and its advantages are clear to all, it can be better run in a Confucian collectivist spirit.� - David Martin Jones
If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. � James Madison
The relatively abstract Eurocentric approach may not serve well to explain the dynamics of Middle Eastern politics. - Larbi Sadiki
There is no need to deny the historical significance of moderate and intelligent statesmen. But it is necessary to perceive the situation within which they worked, on created in large measure by men who were also intelligent but scarcely moderate. - ?
Only by dialectical inversion is it possible to rescue the trend hypothesis. - Philippe C. Schmitter
Unfortunately, the new global agenda after 11 September 2001, which clearly gives priority to security over liberty, may well end up favoring electoral autocrats over democratic electorates. - Andreas Schedler
Live to the point of tears. - Albert Camus
People consider themselves "homosexual" or "heterosexual" because they are induced to believe that humans are either "homosexual" or "heterosexual." Left to their own divices, without such processes of socialization, people would simply be sexual. - John Boswell
If I had to have a job I think I'd be a sniper. - Aaron Kime
[Possibly the best story ever] I wish it was the country - Northampton is just a god dammned half baked burb. - Christine Choy (Chair of Gratudate Film & TV Department at Tisch, New York University)
[justified] I leave and the world falls apart. - Baku
My mother's in the hospital. She was in mexico last week smuggling drugs and she came home having contracted some god awful mexican disease. KARMA. - Baku
The best revenge is making them envy your freedom. - Admiral Chee from James Alan Gardner's EXPENDABLE
It's amazing how much 'mature wisdom' resembles being too tired. - Lazarus Long
Anything free is worth what you paid for it. - Lazarus Long
...In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart... - Sigmund Freud
The 1999 music scene was like a Sienfield episode; it was entertaining... but in the end there was no plot. - VH1
Fundamentalists want us to live a life without pleasure so we can go to heaven in the end, which is basically like keeping your eyes shut through the whole movie in hopes that you will get your money back when it's over. - A guest on Saturday Night Live
Love is the ballet of life; you suffer while you dance, the pain is great but the dance is beautiful.
Truth may never be spoken, it lies in our eyes.
You're the one who tries to engage me in battle. - Rose to Lauren
On Sean Connery: Has that man ever been young? - Margot
We�re chained to the world and we�ve all got to pull. - Tom Waits
You can never have too much to choose from when you don't want to do work. - Stef
On the Golden Gate Bridge: Is that the one from Seattle to San Francisco? - Rose
So it's like WWI, my white skirt is like the assassination of that guy. - Stef
In Austria. - Rose
France. - Stef
It�s just clothes, but it�s also my life - Andre from Project Runway
That's what I do, I party in my dreams. - Stef
We observe the universe through the limited prism of our senses. - The show Numbers
So basicallty you have to solve the problems of the world for homework. - Stef to Nami
Can I be your pimp? But wait, I don't want to ho you out... - Nami to Stef
I'm all about easy access. - Rose
In 50 years: Is the internet even going to exist? I think people are just gonna know... - Stef
I haven't done anything productive at all. - Margot
There are worse things in the world. You could be pregnant. - Stef
There are worse things in the world. You could think Hitler was right. - Stef
I don't care that they say money can't buy happiness, but it certainly can do a lot to aleviate stress. - Karen
Iron Chef, on a pork belly screwed to a wood plank: I hope he remembers to take out the screws before we eat it! Hehe. - Stupid lady judge
Well I hope you remember not to eat a damn screw, you dumb bitch. - Stef
I carry the internet in my womb. - Naomi
I have the equilibrium of a fox. - Collette
Tired? I don�t get tired. Cracked out and fucked over, maybe a little bit. - Stef
Without linear time you�re just out in the ether. - Margot to Stef
I don�t like it there. It smells bad. - Stef to Margot
Do you speak from knowledge? - Rosencrantz or Guildenstern
Precedent. - Stage director
There are so many other things I would like to be doing that are not work related... but if I think like that then I get depressed, and I like to be happy most of the time so I live in this state of denial and repression. - Business Trip-er in the Baltimore Airport
If you say 'no preference,' you have no rights. If I put you will all dudes, spoon and get over it. - India
Do you consent if I bootydrop on you? - Leanne
Shall to be killed by a fiesty muslim! - Nicole
I think I love armadillos, they're like turtle-cats. - Margot
Christianity is a hangman�s metaphysics - Nietzsche
Why is he suturing his own face? - George from Grey's Anatomy
To turn me on. - Christina from Grey's Anatomy
On surgery: It's like candy, but with blood, which is so much better. - Christina from Grey's Anatomy
And he has been saying "I love you" which I do not entirely agree with, but it's still inescapably comfortable in a not so good way - Baku
I have a small, hard black place in my heart for philosophy. - Margot to Baku
Haha. Good. Me too. - Baku to Margot
Knife fighting could be my calling. I stabbed Ian to the point of blood once... but that was a fork. - Baku
You and your box are impressive - Baku
If I don't make time to be really obsessive I get weird. - Baku

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I love the Supreme Court. But more than I love the institution, I love the words that make its decisions as eloquent and forceful as they are.

...The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.
- Mr. Justice Holmes, dissenting in Abrams v. United States
Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
- Mr. Justice Holmes, dissenting in Abrams v. United States
The freedom of speech and of the press which is secured by the Constitution, does not confer an absolute right to speak or publish, without responsibility, whatever one may choose, or an unrestricted and unbridled license that gives immunity for every possible use of language and prevents the punishment of those who abuse this freedom.
- Mr. Justice Sanford, delivering the opinion of the Court in Gitlow v. New York.
Every idea is an incitement.
- Mr Justice Holmes, dissenting in Gitlow v. New York
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
- Mr Justice Holmes, dissenting in Gitlow v. New York
Whatever theoretical merit there may be to the argument that there is a "right" to rebellion against dictatorial governments is without force where the existing structure of the government provides for peaceful and orderly change. We reject any principle of governmental helplessness in the face of preparation for revolution, which principle, carried to its logical conclusion, must lead to anarchy.
- Mr. Chief Justice Vinson, delivering the opinion of the Court in Dennis v. United States
Free speech has occupied an exalted position because of the high service it has given our society. Its protection is essential to the very existence of a democracy.
- Mr. Justice Douglas, dissenting in Dennis v. United States
Full and free discussion keeps a society from becoming stagnant and unprepared for the stresses and strains that work to tear all civilizations apart.
- Mr. Justice Douglas, dissenting in Dennis v. United States
Any word spoken, in class, in the lunchroom, or on the campus, that deviates from the views of another person may start an argument or cause a distrubance. But our Constitution says we must take this risk, and our history says that it is this sort of hazardous freedom - this kind of openness - that is the basis of our national strength and of the independence and vigor of Americans who grow up and live in this relatively ermissive, often disputatious, society.
- Mr. Justice Fortas, delivering the opinion of the Court in Tinker v. Des Moines
In our system, students may not be regarded as closed-circuit recipients of only that which the State choises to communicate. They may not be confined to the expression of those sentiments that are officially approved. In the absence of a specific showing of constitutionally valid reasons to regulate their speech, students are entitled to freedom of expression of their views....
- Mr. Justice Fortas, delivering the opinion of the Court in Tinker v. Des Moines
[Students and teachers do not] shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
- Mr. Justice Fortas, delivering the opinion of the Court in Tinker v. Des Moines
...The Government may not prohibit expression simply because it disagrees with its message...
- Justice Brennan, delivering the opinion of the Court in Texas v. Johnson
A page of history is worth a volume of logic.
New York Trust Co. v. Eisner
The constitutional right of free expression is powerful medicine in a society as diverse and populous as ours. It is designed and intended to remove governmental restraints from the arena of public discussion, putting the decision as to what views shall be voiced largely into the hands of each of us, in the hope that use of such freedom will ultimatelly produce a more capable citizenry and more perfect polity and in the belief that no other approach would comport with the premise of individual dignity and choice upon which our political system rests.
- Mr. Justice Harlan, delivering the opinion of the Court in Cohen v. California
The right to free speech, of course, includes the right to attempt to persuade others to change their views, and may not be curtailed simply because the speaker's message may be offensive to his audience.
- Justice Stevens, delivering the opinion of the Court in Hill v. Colorado
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if partiotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.
- Mr. Justice Jackson, delivering the opinion of the Court in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
The right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of the broader concept of "individual freedom of mind."
- Mr Justice Franfurter, dissenting in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette
It is at least somewhat incongruous for the opponents of advertising to extol the virtues and altruism of the legal profession at one point, and, at another, to assert that its members will seize the opportunity to mislead and distort.
- Mr. Justice Blackmun, delivering the opinion of the Court in Bates v. State Bar of Arizona
We must be ever on guard lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles.
- Justice Brandeis
No man may be prevented from saying or publishing what he thinks, or from refusing in his speech or other utterances to give equal weight to the views of his opponents.
- Mr. Justice White, delivering the opinion of the Court in Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC
As the years pass the power of government becomes more and more pervasive. It is a power to suffocate both people and causes.
- Mr. Justice White, delivering the opinion of the Court in Branzburg v. Hayes
I shall not today attempt further to define [hard core pornography]... But I know it when I see it.
- Justice Potter Stewart, concurring in Roth v. United States
What causes one person to boil up in rage over one pamphlet or movie may reflect only his neurosis, not shared by others.
- Mr. Justice Douglas, dissenting in Miller v. California
We deal with highly emotional, not rational, questions. To many the Song of Solomon is obscene. I do not think we, the judges, were ever given the constitutional power to make definitions of obscenity.
- Mr. Justice Douglas, dissenting in Miller v. California
The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweights any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.
- Justice Stevens, delivering the opinion of the Court in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union
The First Amendment recognizes no such thing as a "false" idea...
- Chief Justice Rehnquist, delivering the opinion of the Court in Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
- Mr. Justice Harlan, dissenting in Plessy v. Ferguson
Then nature of the violation determines the scope of the remedy.
- Justice Burger
For today, the women of this Nation still retain the liberty to control their destinies. But the signs are evident and very ominous, and a chill wind blows.
- Justice Harry Blackmun, concurring in part and dissenting in part in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services

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