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Haste breeds arbitrary decisions that are no more than edicts, or "absolute" principles that soon collide with other principles, fail to resolve conflicting interests, or collapse in the face of experience. By contrast, great judging requires intense effort, a consuming passion for the public interest, a scorn for personal whims. No fealty to that effort was ever more impressive or poignant than that shown by Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting from a court ruling that Jehovah's Witnesses could not be forced to salute the flag in public schools. "One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority...
...week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only a few of the more...
There are particular people who should be very much on our minds and consciences. We owe special honor and comfort to the families of the Americans who gave their lives in Viet Nam, and we owe a special scorn to any politicians who might seek to exploit their sorrow. We owe far better medical care to the Viet Nam wounded than they are getting in many of our hospitals. We must, of course, bring home our prisoners from North Viet Nam, though it may not help to treat this as a condition for, instead of a consequence of, peace...
...Dutch baroness and the father of two grown children. Luns is a speed reader whose photographic memory enables him to absorb history and Foreign Ministry cables even as he is watching television. A member of the moderate Catholic People's Party, he makes little attempt to disguise his scorn for progressive Catholics within his party, and for leftists of any ilk. While looking at TV, he says, "I get up and leave when some leftist starts saving the whole world." Luns, who has served far longer in office than any other Western Foreign
...Herman Kahin is lying. I heard that speech, and the CRIMSON's version was accurate, if brief. There wasn't the faintest suggestion in Kahn's statements that he considered morality too complex an issue. Indeed, his attitude was one of simple scorn. Kahn very cavalierly dimissed moral factors as irrelevant and, despite his claims to the contrary, made no distinctions between kinds of moral arguments. His view was that if you use moral arguments, "it implies that you're better than anybody else" (Kahn's version of "who're you to decide what's right?"). After some mumbling along...