William O. Douglas Quotes

Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

William O. Douglas

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• To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Integrity
  • Election
  • Nobody

• When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Career
  • College
  • Class

• As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Girl

• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

  

  Ovid
  • Body
  • Courage
  • Strength

• The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Control
  • Mistake

• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Weapons
  • Allow

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Song
  • Community

• There is a daily discussion with our servants about the price of food and the number of loaves: a conference with our presbyters to consider the sins of our people is a very rare occurrence.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • People
  • Food
  • Daily

• We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

  

  Viktor Yanukovych
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Improve

• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Powerful
  • Rich

• People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.

  

  Garrett Morris
  • Peace
  • Idea
  • Happen

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Happy

• The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Lawyer
  • Rule

• I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Live
  • Business

• My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the confident and fearless person that I am today.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Today
  • Parents
  • Support

• I remember when I first started to be photographed, people couldn't understand how it was possible to go around with no eyelashes, no eyebrows. Now it's much more accepted for people not to wear eyelashes or lipstick or whatever they do, but then it was quite freaky. Um, a kind of boiled look.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Remember
  • Kind

• In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Corruption

• I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Community
  • Winning
  • Battle