Antonin Scalia on Life
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Antonin Scalia, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Antonin Scalia, entry #90194: "'The operation was a success, but the patient died.' What such a procedure is to medicine, the Court's opinion in this case is to law."
Attributed to Antonin Scalia, entry #22598: "I don't think it's a living document, I think it's dead. More precisely, I think it's enduring. It doesn't change. I think that needs to be orthodoxy."
5 Quotes by Antonin Scalia on Life
"'The operation was a success, but the patient died.' What such a procedure is to medicine, the Court's opinion in this case is to law."
"I don't think it's a living document, I think it's dead. More precisely, I think it's enduring. It doesn't change. I think that needs to be orthodoxy."
"Evidently, the governing standard is to be what might be called the unfettered wisdom of a majority of this Court, revealed to an obedient people on a case-by-case basis."
"Life is too short to pursue every human act to its most remote consequences; "for want of a nail, a kingdom was lost" is a commentary on fate, not the statement of a major cause of action against a blacksmith."
"It seems to me that the more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral. Abolition has taken its firmest hold in post-Christian Europe, and has least support in the church-going United States. I attribute that to the fact that, for the believing Christian, death is no big deal. Intentionally killing an innocent person is a big deal: it is a grave sin, which causes one to lose his soul. But losing this life, in exchange for the next? The Christian attitude is reflected in the words Robert Bolt’s play has Thomas More saying to the headsman: 'Friend, be not afraid of your office. You send me to God'. For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence."