William O. Douglas Quotes

The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.

William O. Douglas

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• I mean, horror films in general put humans in these awful supernatural or horrible situations, but 'Cabin In The Woods' cranks it up a few notches and becomes outrageous and totally bizarre.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Up
  • Mean
  • Supernatural

• The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Mean
  • Jewish
  • Anti-Semitism

• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Mean
  • Point
  • Move

• I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Mean
  • Actor
  • Along

• I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Congress
  • Southern
  • Six

• Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Great
  • Me
  • Mean

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Freedom
  • Mean
  • Journalism

• Censorship is the thing that stops you doing what you want to do, and what writers want to talk about is what they do, not what stops them doing it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Censorship

• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Exactly

• We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Country
  • Mean
  • United States

• I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Think
  • Congress
  • Equal

• I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Mean
  • Latin
  • Mexican

• In a democracy, you have to find a market niche, make sure a novel is 'interesting' and 'spectacular.' That may be the toughest censorship of all.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Democracy

• Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Censorship
  • Extreme
  • Assassination

• The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers, .. That's not censorship. That's common sense.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Kids
  • America
  • Censorship

• In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Die
  • Mean
  • Bible

• We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.

  

  William Carey
  • Mean
  • Use
  • Praying

• In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.

  

  David Boaz
  • People
  • Mean
  • Liberty

• It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  

  Richard Neal
  • Congress
  • Accomplish
  • Simplification

• I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8" on it. I love working on them. I can't fix a computer or a car, but I can fix a typewriter. I like them because you can write on them late at night, depending on what you're fortifying yourself with, and the next morning you can still figure what you wrote.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Night
  • Computer
  • Typewriters

• Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Live
  • Song
  • Band

• The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In order to sanction a system of censorship I would have to say that "no law" does not mean what it says, that "no law" is qualified to mean "some" laws. I cannot take this step.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Mean
  • Congress
  • Censorship