#malleable

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#born #conceived #day #dies #grows

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. ↗

— Ken Burns

#assumptions #challenge #diaries #evidence #history

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. ↗

— Peter Berger

#changing #flexible #happened #interprets #malleable

I’m putty in her hands. Out of her hands, I’m more like clay.
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— Jarod Kintz

#clay #form #hands #malleable #mold

The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#being #body #face #i #immoral

The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. ↗

— Pat Metheny

#beauty #jazz #malleable #own #people