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Ideas Quotes by William O. Douglas
- The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
- Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.
- Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the…
- Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
- But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual,…
- The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
- Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. — Mary Kay Ash
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe