Assembly Quote by Louis D. Brandeis Download Open image “Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly.” — Louis D. Brandeis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assembly Communication Fear Free speech Injury Justify Not alone Serious Speech Suppression
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric. — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
Banning words and subject matters for fear of upsetting people runs the risk of stifling conversation and halting social progress. — Adam Pearson Copy Share Image
It's impossible to utilize your right to free speech in the way you truly deserve and not suffer repercussions on any level. — David Draiman Copy Share Image
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about… — Howard Zinn Copy Share
“The right to free speech and the unrealistic expectation to never be offended can not coexist.” — Philip Sharp Copy Share Image
The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share
What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Mac [Barnett] and I prank each other during our presentation. We show baby pictures of each other looking completely ridiculous. I can't believe the frilly shirt that I'm in, and Mac's wearing a sailor suit and playing a toy piano. That's a perfect example of a good prank, where we have three hundred people literally laughing in our faces, three… — Jory John Copy Share
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share
To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share
“Liberalism is a creation of the seventeenth century, fathered by British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704). For Locke, liberalism means limited government, the rule of law, due process, liberty, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, separation of church and state, and separation of government powers into branches that oversee each other’s authority.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share
Well I'm not dancing," Will said through gritted teeth. "I don't know how." Oh yes you are," Alyss told him. "Let's hope you're a… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I was a star campaigner for the Aruvikkara byelection and the assembly elections. They were very valuable experiences. — Suresh Gopi Copy Share Image
One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
