Rbg Dissent Quotes & Sayings

I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!' — Owain Yeoman

If I take you," she said, and it was a warning, "I'll keep you. Always. — Nalini Singh

When the jabot with scalloped glass beads glitters flat against the top of RBG's black robe, it's bad news for liberals. That's her dissent collar. — Irin Carmon

Am I going to have to carry you? If so, it would complete my badass knight-in-shining-armor act with you today. — J. Lynn

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling. — Rory Bremner

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. — August Bebel

Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians. — Homer

RBG's most famous words in the Hobby Lobby dissent could have appeared in any of her searing dissents: "The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield. — Irin Carmon

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind ... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself. — Laura Riding

Younger people tend to associate happiness more with excitement and the future, while older people tend to associate happiness with peacefulness in the present. — Chip Conley

April 18, 2007: RBG launches her era of furious dissent with the abortion case Gonzales v. Carhart. — Irin Carmon

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions. — John Stuart Mill