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«A pro-life advocate sees abortion as a sin against God who infuses life at the moment of conception. A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«There is no room at all, in the hiring process, which is heavily scripted, for revealing political and religious orientation.»
Author: Stanley Fish
«It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.»
Author: Stanley Fish
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