It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."
hugo blackFor there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
ciceroFrom birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.
frantz fanonIt is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.
ovadia yosefFor there is but one essential justice which cements society , and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason , which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people a very few people, but a few novelists are among them are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
e. m. forster