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Legal Scholar Inspirational Quotes (152)

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There are cases in which somebody has demonstrated just such an outrageous disregard for the bounds of an acceptable decision that you want a measure of accountability.
Deborah Rhode
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Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Alafair Burke
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As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.
Cass Sunstein
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The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
Tim Wu
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We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.
Patricia J. Williams
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Trolling is an ancient problem. It's been around as long as there has been media.
Tim Wu
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I think a lot of the Trump supporters think that the job situation is not good.
Cass Sunstein
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Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.
Yochai Benkler
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If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement. De Revolutionibus Coelestibus
Nicolaus Copernicus
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There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause
Cass Sunstein
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According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.
Alafair Burke
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I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.
Tim Wu
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
Cass Sunstein
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While the agreement signed in Paris between 195 nations to combat climate change was historic and significant, it's still vague and lacks the ambition to truly meet the challenge. The next step is to move aggressively toward a transition to 100% clean renewable energy as quickly as possible (that means no fossil fuels, nuclear, or big hydro).
John B. Quigley
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In our system, we leave questions of fact to a jury. But to render a verdict, a jury must know the law. For this, we rely upon jury instructions. Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.
Alafair Burke
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Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back.
Yochai Benkler
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In first place we must observe that the universe is spherical. This is either because that figure is the most perfect, as not being articulated, but whole and complete in itself or because it is the most capacious and therefore best suited for that which is to contain and preserve all things.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Socialization would be the most successful thing to bring mainstream audiences to online computers.
Tim Wu
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Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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It's deeply human to do both the worst things and the best things because of your fear of loss.
Cass Sunstein
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Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.
Yochai Benkler
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the very notion of blindness about color constitutes an ideological confusion at best, and denial at its very worst.
Patricia J. Williams
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