| The right to privacy is one of a democracy's givens and the media expose police and bureaucrats who invade it. |
| A lot of what I was saying seven, eight years ago, among the few who were saying it, are now almost givens in the discussion, so I feel good about that. |
| One aspect of the deconstructive turn is the realization that things that we take for granted as givens are in fact inventions. |
| There is no need to pay excessive deference to the political pieties and givens of the region. |
| We take as givens the forces of gravity, the laws of nature, the ideas that an electron has a negative charge and the protons a positive charge. |
| The ability to articulate and argue and the right to do so are not givens, but areas of considerable complexity and dissent. |
