Erwin Chemerinsky Quotes

Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.

Erwin Chemerinsky

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• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Life
  • Game
  • Control

• There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Nature
  • Control

• The Chinese have made a faustian pact with the government, agreeing to forsake demands for political and intellectual freedom in exchange for more material comfort. They live prosperous lives in which any expression of pain is forbidden.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Live
  • Political
  • Freedom

• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • American
  • Think
  • Society

• After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Travel

• I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Work
  • Important
  • Government

• The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument... an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Important
  • Power
  • Control

• European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Freedom
  • Government
  • Values

• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • You
  • Change
  • Control

• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Business
  • Job
  • Government

• I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Government
  • Late
  • November

• We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces impinging on us that we will never understand or control. We need to have sacred places where we go with respect, not just looking for resources or opportunity.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Nature
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Control
  • Gun

• I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Life
  • Control
  • Stress

• Giorgio Morandi's paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • May
  • Control
  • Style

• When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• I love television, and my love for it has made me curious about writing it. It feels like television's moving toward something more novelistic, and that's what I started wanting to do. But I can't say that I'm dying to get notes from a studio. The artistic control that you get as a playwright is worth its weight in gold.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • Writing
  • Control
  • Moving

• There is a lot that happens around the world we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes, we cannot prevent droughts, and we cannot prevent all conflict, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless and the sick exist, then we can help.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • World
  • Help
  • Control

• I do remember feeling, 'I don't ever want to feel impotent in terms of what I can control in a business in which you can have very little control.' And that motivated me to go to law school - that, and my parents saying, 'Go to law school before you do anything.'

  

  Marc Platt
  • School
  • Business
  • Remember

• It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Free

• A joke's a very serious thing.

  

  Charles Churchill
  • Serious

• Avarice, the spur of industry.

  

  David Hume

• Freedom of speech is essential to freedom of thought; it is essential to democratic self-governance; and the alternative-- government censorship and control of ideas-- has always led to disaster.

  

  Erwin Chemerinsky
  • Control
  • Government
  • Disaster