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If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things? — Antonin Scalia

The court's job is to uphold the Constitution and you don't call that off in times of crisis. Would the framers have allowed this practice? — Antonin Scalia

All writing is pigshit. — Antonin Artaud

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. — Antonin Artaud

Those who live, live off the dead. — Antonin Artaud

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. — Antonin Artaud

The fixation of the theater in one language
written words, music, lights, noises
betokens its imminent ruin. — Antonin Artaud

People look at rights as if they were muscles - the more you exercise them, the better they get. — Antonin Scalia

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter. — Antonin Artaud

All writing is filth — Antonin Artaud

I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames. — Antonin Artaud

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools ... and He has not been disappointed. — Antonin Scalia

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud

The actor is an athlete of the heart. — Antonin Artaud

A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable. — Antonin Scalia

Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry
out a death sentence properly reached. — Antonin Scalia

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations ... until they were all litigated out. — Antonin Scalia

Why can't the state accede to the public's wishes? — Antonin Scalia

Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal. — Antonin Sertillanges

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. — Antonin Dvorak

By this act He affirms that the enemy of love is pride, and that the enemy of all good is the refusal to love. — Antonin Sertillanges

I have composed too much. — Antonin Dvorak

[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored. — Antonin Scalia

What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? — Antonin Scalia

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. — Antonin Artaud

When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted? — Antonin Scalia

It's not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections. — Antonin Scalia

A journalistic purpose could be someone with a Xerox machine in a basement. — Antonin Scalia

I myself am an absolute abyss. — Antonin Artaud

Originalism says that when you consult the text, you give it the meaning it had when it was adopted, not some later modern meaning. — Antonin Scalia

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud

Mozart is sweet sunshine. — Antonin Dvorak

Actors are athletes of the heart. — Antonin Artaud

Everything is going badly because at this moment the morbid conscience has an essential interest in not recovering from its own sickness. — Antonin Artaud

Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness. — Antonin Artaud

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. — Antonin Artaud

I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws. — Antonin Artaud

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary. — Antonin Artaud

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself. — Antonin Artaud

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia

I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years. — Antonin Scalia

A law can be both economic folly and constitutional. — Antonin Scalia

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living. — Antonin Artaud

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel — Antonin Artaud

It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. — Antonin Scalia

The Constitution does not trust judges to make determinations of criminal guilt. — Antonin Scalia

The wise do not investigate such silliness. — Antonin Scalia

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way. — Antonin Artaud

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater. — Antonin Artaud

I am a man by virtue of my hands and my feet, my belly, my heart of meat, my stomach whose knots reunite me to the putrefaction of life. — Antonin Artaud

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference. — Antonin Artaud

For in order for capitalism to work
in order for it to produce a good and a stable society
the traditional Christian virtues are essential. — Antonin Scalia

If it is a book, do not leave it without being able to sum it up and to estimate its value. — Antonin Sertillanges

Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. — Antonin Artaud

It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I
unhinge. — Antonin Artaud

There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all. — Antonin Scalia

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. — Antonin Artaud

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present. — Antonin Artaud

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. — Antonin Artaud

This is an execution, not surgery. Where does that come from, that you must find the method of execution that causes the least pain? — Antonin Scalia

One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. — Antonin Scalia

This is so absurd that it has, to my knowledge, never been contemplated. — Antonin Scalia

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. — Antonin Artaud

Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize. — Antonin Scalia

Life consists of burning up questions. — Antonin Artaud

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. — Antonin Artaud

In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it. — Antonin Artaud

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State". — Antonin Scalia

Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination, — Antonin Artaud

All true feeling is in reality untranslatable. To express it is to betray it. But to translate it is to dissimulate it. — Antonin Artaud

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change. — Antonin Scalia

Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers? — Antonin Scalia

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death. — Antonin Artaud

You are quite unnecessary, young man! — Antonin Artaud

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along. — Antonin Scalia

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud

Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it. — Antonin Kratochvil

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration. — Antonin Artaud

Classroom Activities
1. Using felt and yarn, make a hand puppet of Clarence Thomas. Ta-da! You're Antonin Scalia! — Jon Stewart

The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it. — Antonin Sertillanges

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him. — Antonin Artaud

Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work. — Antonin Sertillanges

A written constitution is needed to protect values AGAINST prevailing wisdom. — Antonin Scalia

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me. — Antonin Artaud

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American. — Antonin Scalia

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose. — Antonin Artaud

I try to be an honest originalist! I will take the bitter with the sweet! — Antonin Scalia

Tyrannies have long lists of rights. What they do not have is structural restraints on the power of government. — Antonin Scalia

I have never written except to fix and perpetuate the memory of these cuts, these scissions, these ruptures, these abrupt and bottomless falls. — Antonin Artaud

The theater is the only place in the world where a gesture, once made, can never be made the same way twice. — Antonin Artaud

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos. — Antonin Artaud

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ... — Antonin Artaud

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years. — Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom. — Antonin Scalia

Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesn't. — Antonin Scalia

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better. — Antonin Scalia

It is difficult to maintain the illusion that we are interpreting a Constitution, rather than inventing one. — Antonin Scalia

Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. — Antonin Scalia

Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud