222 Quotes by Cass Sunstein

It’s very common to say that Star Wars in the late ’70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the ’60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero’s journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong.

I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for an hour, chances are you’re going to like them, and they’re not full of hate.

There is no proportional representation requirement in the Equal Protection Clause.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn’t a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It’s time now.

The idea that Taylor Swift would become the giant pop icon of 2015, 2016 – she’s really good, but I don’t think it’s written in the stars.

Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There’s a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn’t want the government to be mandating courtesy.

We might have new issues involving information technology for example, or new questions arising out of the war on terror, or new issues arising from natural disasters that can’t be anticipated.

I’ll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant – and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.