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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• Party
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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

• During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Childhood

• 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

• No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Universe
  • Force

• The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Time
  • Great
  • Rock

• 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

• Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.

  

  Karen Katz
  • She
  • Mother
  • Grandmother

• 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

• Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I live in a beautiful country; a beautiful city and I have a beautiful family.

  

  Jeff Waters Annihilator
  • Country
  • Family
  • City

• Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Able

• I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.

  

  Ray Santiago
  • Sometimes
  • Thing
  • Characters

• 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