Hugo Black Quotes

Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

Hugo Black

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• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Financial

• I love Coco de Mer.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Love
  • I Love

• If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Universe
  • Idea
  • Happen

• Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Way
  • Drama
  • Order

• I don't care what people think about me. I really don't.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Well, since paradoxes are at hand, let us see how it might be demonstrated that in a finite continuous extension it is not impossible for infinitely many voids to be found.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Hand

• A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Truth

• I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Done
  • Water
  • Crazy

• Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

  

  Bob Marley
  • Up

• I'm real strong, and I'm also real feminine, and I don't find a struggle having those two things under one roof.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Struggle

• Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a kind of low-level panic sets in.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Book

• In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.

  

  Will Smith
  • Mind

• Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • God

• I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • Work
  • Father

• Black women are supposed to be 'strong,' but the burden of carrying our race and carrying our families adds the pressure.

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Women
  • Black
  • Strong

• Planned Parenthood had better hope that Hillary Clinton wins this election, because I guarantee under President Jindal, January 2017, the Department of Justice and the IRS and everybody else that we can send from the federal government will be going in to Planned Parenthood.

  

  Bobby Jindal
  • Hope
  • Justice

• After all, as long as you know, why make when you can take?

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Know

• I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Romantic
  • Wonderful
  • Bike

• I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.

  

  Ludwig Bemelmans
  • Writing
  • Done

• At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.

  

  John Mackey
  • Team

• Compelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Country