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" I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to have to deal with global warming, to tell you the truth. "
Antonin Scalia
Global Warming
Want
Truth
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" To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation. "
Antonin Scalia
Transformation
Marriage
More
" If there's anything you absolutely hate, why, it must be unconstitutional. Or, if there's anything you absolutely have to have, it must be required by the Constitution. That's where we are. That is utterly mindless. "
Antonin Scalia
You
Why
Hate
" But I'm not pro death penalty. I - I'm just anti the notion that it is not a matter for democratic choice, that it has been taken away from the democratic choice of the people by a provision of the Constitution. "
Antonin Scalia
Constitution
People
Choice
" What is a moderate interpretation of the text? Halfway between what it really means and what you'd like it to mean? "
Antonin Scalia
Mean
Halfway
You
" 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
Child
Family
Not Perfect
" The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living, but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted. "
Antonin Scalia
Constitution
Living
Today
" As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy. "
Antonin Scalia
Judges
Thought
Desire
" If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things. "
Antonin Scalia
Crime
Constitution
Punishment
" Being a good person begins with being a wise person. Then, when you follow your conscience, will you be headed in the right direction. "
Antonin Scalia
Direction
Wise
You
" What secret knowledge, one must wonder, is breathed into lawyers when they become Justices of this Court that enables them to discern that a practice which the text of the Constitution does not clearly proscribe, and which our people have regarded as constitutional for 200 years, is in fact unconstitutional? "
Antonin Scalia
People
Practice
Knowledge
" If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong. "
Antonin Scalia
Yourself
Doing
Good
" Why in the world would you have it interpreted by nine lawyers? "
Antonin Scalia
Why
World
Nine
" Because values change, legislatures abolish the death penalty, permit same-sex marriage if they want, abolish laws against homosexual conduct. That's how the change in a society occurs. Society doesn't change through a Constitution. "
Antonin Scalia
Values
Change
Death
" If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. "
Antonin Scalia
Stupidity
Wisdom
World
" A good, hard-hitting dissent keeps you honest. "
Antonin Scalia
Honest
Dissent
You
" I used to say that the Constitution is not a living document. It's dead, dead, dead. But I've gotten better. I no longer say that. The truth is that the Constitution is not one that morphs. It's an enduring Constitution, not a changing Constitution. That is what I've meant when I've said that the Constitution is dead. "
Antonin Scalia
Truth
Better
Constitution
" It's absolutely clear that whatever cruel and unusual punishments may - may mean with regard to future things, such as death by injection or the electric chair, it's clear that - that the death penalty, in and of itself, is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. "
Antonin Scalia
Future
Chair
Death Penalty
" And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional. "
Antonin Scalia
Stupid
Law
Now
" I attack ideas. I don't attack people. And some very good people have some very bad ideas. And if you can't separate the two, you gotta get another day job. You don't want to be a judge. At least not a judge on a multi-member panel. "
Antonin Scalia
Good
Day
Judge
" 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
You
Meaning
Modern
" The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. "
Antonin Scalia
Business
Irony
Lawyer
" Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited... It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose. "
Antonin Scalia
Purpose
Like
Carry
" A man who has made no enemies is probably not a very good man. "
Antonin Scalia
Enemies
Good
Good Man
" There exists in some parts of the world sanctimonious criticism of America's death penalty, as somehow unworthy of a civilized society. "
Antonin Scalia
Death
Society
Some