William J. Brennan, Jr. Quotes

At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

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• Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

  

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• In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

  

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• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

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• In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

  

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• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

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• Writers are so important.

  

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• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  

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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

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• I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

  

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• It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

  

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• It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

  

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• My project was radiation damage of Si and Ge by energetic electrons, critical for the use of the recently developed semiconductor devices for applications in outer space.

  

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• To fund major cultural efforts, we must not rely alone on government and foundation patronage; if the farmer can spend for beer, he can pay for good entertainment which he can understand, which he can identify with and which will fortify his spirit.

  

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• The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

  

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• It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

  

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• To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.

  

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• People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

  

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• We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

  

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• You need to be your own individual.

  

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• At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Country
  • Moral
  • Individual