William J. Brennan Jr. quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by William J. Brennan Jr.

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Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it.

If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion.

Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.