Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Potter StewartFor me this is not something that can be swept under the rug and forgotten in the interest of forced Sunday togetherness.
Potter StewartI shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
Potter StewartMay the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might as well ask if the state, to avoid public unease, could incarcerate all who are physically unattractive or socially eccentric.
Potter Stewart