Popularity makes no law invulnerable to invalidation. Americans accept judicial supervision of their democracy - judicial review of popular but possibly unconstitutional statutes - because they know that if the Constitution is truly to constitute the nation, it must trump some majority preferences.
Too often the result of affirmative action has been an artificial diversity that gives the appearance of parity between blacks and whites that has not yet been achieved in reality. . . Preferences tend to attack one form of discrimination with another. . . Affirmative action encourages a victim-focused identity, and sends the message that there is more power in our past suffering than in our present achievements.
In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.
Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.
The confusion between temperament and character has had serious consequences for ethical theory. Preferences with regard to differences in temperament are mere matters of subjective taste. But differences in character are ethically of the most fundamental importance.
I am a big advocate for having an open discussion about team norms and preferences. At The Muse, some of us like to start working at 7:30 A. M. Others focus best from 10 P. M. to 2 A. M. Create a culture where it's acceptable not to be working when someone else is working.
I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly. . . they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
My child's first word was "more," but and it's all about, "I want. " "I'm going to tell you what I want and what I don't want. " It's about my desire to express my preferences. And that is really innate.
I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Nature is objective, and nature is knowable, but we can only view her through a glass darkly and many clouds upon our vision are of our own making: social and cultural biases, psychological preferences, and mental limitations (in universal modes of thought, not just individualized stupidity).
But our preferences do not determine what's true.
'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny - and also in a willingness to revise or abandon your theories when the tests fail (as they usually do).
The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.
I think the American people should express their preferences and we'll accept their choice.
