“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
― Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays
“What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.”
― Knowledge and Decisions
― Knowledge and Decisions
“Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.”
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
“Intellect is not wisdom.”
― Intellectuals and Society
― Intellectuals and Society
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