The confidentiality of the judicial process would not matter greatly to an understanding and evaluation of the legal system if the consequences of ju…

- Richard Posner

As a social good, I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. People conceal things in order to fool other peop…

- Richard Posner

A diversity of approaches is necessary if there is to be a good chance of hitting on one that works. Progress is a social undertaking & achievement, …

- Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. M…

- Richard Posner

Heterosexuals get drunk and pregnant, producing unwanted children; their reward is to be allowed to marry. Homosexual couples do not produce unwanted…

- Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical p…

- Richard Posner

Because reputation lags achievement, we should expect people to reach the zenith of their reputation well past the zenith of their productive output

- Richard Posner

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

- Richard Posner

I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. Bu…

- Richard Posner