Ronald Dworkin Quotes on Politics
Ronald Myles Dworkin was an American legal and political philosopher and one of the most influential jurisprudential thinkers of the late twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Ronald Dworkin on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:
“Law is an interpretive concept.”
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Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:
“Rights are trumps over collective goals.”
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Attributed to Ronald Dworkin:
“Equality of resources, not of welfare, is the proper egalitarian ideal.”
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“Nixon is no longer president, and his crimes were so grave that no one is likely now to worry very much any more about the details of his own legal philosophy. Nevertheless in what follows I shall use the name 'Nixon' to refer, not to Nixon, but to any politician holding the set of attitudes about the Supreme Court that he made explicit in his political campaigns. There was, fortunately, only one real Nixon, but there are, in the special sense in which I use the name, many Nixons.”
Taking Rights Seriously (1978), p. 164 -
“She ends her letter, characteristically, by picturing me and her other critics as indifferent to the suffering of women. But many feminists, including several who wrote or spoke to me about my review, regret her single-minded concentration on lurid sex. They think that though it has predictably attracted much publicity, it tends to stereotype women as victims, and takes attention from still urgent questions of economic, political, and professional equality.”
Pornography: An Exchange" , response to Catharine MacKinnon , New York Review of Books 41(5), (3 March 1994)