Felix Frankfurter Quotes
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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At the end of the day, it's all about money.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.
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unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.
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I don't come from family money, and neither does my husband.
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I thought his rookie year was his most amazing year. For him to master two positions, grow with the speed of the league and to do it from both inside and outside positions and have success was nothing short of amazing. The second year he took the normal progression from year one to year two. That's when the greatest growth occurs, especially for linemen, and he took off.
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Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
