William J. Brennan Jr. Quotes

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.

The law is always in transition.

Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life.

Work for legal reform takes place only within the framework of the social form created by the last revolution.

As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.

The courts may be the most important instrument for social, economic, and political change.

Courts should ... follow, rather than lead, changes taking place elsewhere in society.

There are certain things that we cannot accomplish by law or by any process of government.

Public opinion is always in advance of the law.

There is not, in the whole compass of human affairs, so noble a spectacle as that which is displayed in the progress of jurisprudence; where we may contemplate the cautious and unwearied exertion of a succession of wise men, through a long course of ages, withdrawing every case, as it arises, from the dangerous power of discretion, and subjecting it to inflexible rules.

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Alfred Nobel believed that social changes are brought about slowly, and sometimes by indirect means.

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

Law is king of all.

I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.

I'm part of an important movement that needs to happen.

The law is immoral.

When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

The law doesn't create a right.

I'm trying to change the world.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.