You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
The State insists that, by thus quarantining the general reading public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. Surely this is to burn the house to roast the pig. . . The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children.
The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.
The words of the Constitution. . . are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals.
My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
Rock bands are a lot like football teams: If a guy is on drugs and messes up, get someone else who's proud to wear the uniform and be part of the team.
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh air, he will have to overcome certain physical repugnance before he can bring himself to put those principles into practice.
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.