Fortas Supreme Quotes & Sayings

The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become I. — Eckhart Tolle

Burn brightly without burning out. — Richard Biggs

For a justice of this ultimate tribunal [the U.S. Supreme Court], the opportunity for self-discovery and the occasion for self-revelation is great. — Abe Fortas

Government in our democracy, state and national, must be neutral in matters of religious theory, doctrine, and practice. It may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another or even against the militant opposite. The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and nonreligion.
[Epperson v. Arkansas, 393 U.S. 97, 1968.] — Abe Fortas

In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London. — Zac Goldsmith

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears. — David Walker

The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish. — Charles M. Schwab

Choose your mistakes carefully. — Craig Newmark

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. — Jerry Falwell

Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy — Louise Imogen Guiney

Nobody will leave any place unless they're forced out. That's the nature of humans. Once you're there, you're there. I've never seen anybody get up voluntarily and leave any place. — Albert Brooks

All the subjects of the world can be included in the kashays of anger-pride-deceit-greed. Anger and deceit are the 'protectors'. They have indeed originated from greed. A proud person will have greed for self-validation and recognition from others. And deceit protects it. — Dada Bhagwan

Linux had paid little attention to the games themselves. The sport of blood had never held him. Linux had a warrior's scorn for gladiators and the maiming of man or beast as entertainment. But for Jacob, a young Judean lad with no concept of Roman games, it clearly had been a terrible shock. The boy's occasional shudder indicated the level of his distress. — Janette Oke