Richard Posner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously....
-- Richard Posner

#Sex #Couple #Children
Iâ€™ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy,
-- Richard Posner

#Party #Becoming #Conservative
A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, because people see things differently
-- Richard Posner

#Diversity #People #Achievement
It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.
-- Richard Posner

#Government #Two #Space
I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.
-- Richard Posner

#Sacrifice #Government #Liberty
MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of ***** as she herself poses it - the harm that ***** does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.
-- Richard Posner

#Government #Issues #People
Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.
-- Richard Posner

#Inspirational #Trying #Facts
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.
-- Richard Posner

#Spiritual #Atheist #Science
If belief in the existence of God is predicted to lead to a feeling of contentment, and the prediction is fulfilled, does it follow that God exists? Surely not. All that would follow would be the desireability of the belief.
-- Richard Posner

#Spiritual #Atheist #Science
But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!
-- Richard Posner

#Party #Thinking #Views
Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted children; their reward is to be denied the right to marry. Go figure.
-- Richard Posner

#Couple #Children #Drunk
As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other people about them. They want to appear healthier than they are, smarter, more honest and so forth.
-- Richard Posner

#Mean #Thinking #Order
Violent video games played in public places are a tiny fraction of the media violence to which modern American children are exposed. Tiny - and judging from the record of this case not very violent compared to what is available to children on television and in movie theaters today.
-- Richard Posner

#Children #Government #Media

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