“The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.”

Navarette v. California, 134 S. Ct. 1683, 1697, 188 L. Ed. 2d 680 (2014).
2010s

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity." by Antonin Scalia?
Antonin Scalia photo
Antonin Scalia 100
former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United… 1936–2016

Related quotes

Sonia Sotomayor photo

“When a person was so consistently wrong, it was time to give up having opinions.”

Source: The Heritage Universe, Convergence (1997), Chapter 23 (p. 488)

William O. Douglas photo

“The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court… When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.”

William O. Douglas (1898–1980) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Interview with the New York Times (29 October 1973)
Other speeches and writings

Nikolai Berdyaev photo

“Fate and freedom alike play a part in history; and there are times, as in wars and revolutions, when fate is the stronger of the two. Freedom”

Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) Russian philosopher

the freedom of man and of nations — could never have been the origin of two world wars. These latter were brought about by fate, which exercises its power owing to the weakness and decline of freedom and of the creative spirit of man. Almost all contemporary political ideologies, with their characteristic tendency to state-idolatry, are likewise largely a product of two world wars, begotten as they are of the inexorability's of fate.
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 32

Carlos Ruiz Zafón photo

“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

Kevin Kelly photo

“Inconsistency is an inevitable trait of any self-sustaining system built up out of consistent parts.”

Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor

Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)

“Real freedom is freedom from the opinions of others. Above all, freedom from your opinions about yourself.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Wisdom of Tenderness: What Happens When God's Fierce Mercy Transforms Our Lives

Robert A. Heinlein photo

“An invention is something that was “impossible” up to then—that’s why governments grant patents.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 6

Felix Frankfurter photo

“In this Court dissents have gradually become majority opinions.”

Felix Frankfurter (1882–1965) American judge

Concurring, Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 446 (1939).
Judicial opinions

Abd al-Karim Qasim photo

“The freedom of an individual merges in the freedom of all and serves the freedom of all.”

Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914–1963) Prime Minister of Iraq

Speech delivered at the second congress of the peace partisans (April 14, 1959).
Principles of the 14th July Revolution (1959)

Related topics