Noah Feldman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.
-- Noah Feldman

#Struggle #Thinking #Umpires
To try to be at once a Lithuanian yeshiva and a New England prep school: that was the unspoken motto of the Maimonides School of Brookline, Mass., where I studied for 12 years.
-- Noah Feldman

#School #Years #Trying
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation - itself only intensified by the memory of the Holocaust - marriage becomes the sine qua non of social membership in the modern Orthodox community.
-- Noah Feldman

#Memories #Self #Practice
Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war cool. As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.
-- Noah Feldman

#War #Matter #Tools
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
-- Noah Feldman

#War #Secret #Sides
Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.
-- Noah Feldman

#Fall #Judging #Empires
In 1953, after the armistice ending the Korean War, South Korea lay in ruins. President Eisenhower was eager to put an end to hostilities that had left his predecessor deeply unpopular, and the war ended in an uneasy stalemate.
-- Noah Feldman

#War #Korea #President
We like democracy because why? The pathologies of the U.S. version are so obvious in the aftermath of the latest averted crisis that we need to ask ourselves whether itâ€™s worth it - and why electoral democracy hasnâ€™t self-destructed before. Should Tunisians or Egyptians opt for the Chinese model, where rational autocrats may restrict rights, but no one threatens to blow up world markets in the name of an 18th-century tax protest?
-- Noah Feldman

#Blow #Rights #Self
Isnâ€™t everyoneâ€™s life a mass of contradictions?
-- Noah Feldman

#Contradiction #Mass
Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia believe that the core values of Islam, namely acknowledgement of God's sovereignty and basic human equality before God, are themselves compatible with liberty, equality and free political choice.
-- Noah Feldman

#God #Believe #Choices

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