Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
Use of a mentally ill person’s involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress’s decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages. William J. Brennan, Jr. Read Quote
