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"In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge."
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"Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character."

"SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence."

"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."

"What does greed mean? Greed means taking away what belongs to others."

"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."

"Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person."
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"Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept."


"The right to procreate is not guaranteed, explicitly or implicitly, by the Constitution."


"The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left."


"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."


"I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing."


"An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."


"The purpose that brought the fourteenth amendment into being was equality before the law, and equality, not separation, was written into the law."


"Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy."


"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance."


"I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself."
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