"It is within the police power of the state to prohibit public use of fighting words that create a danger of breach of the peace, but simply to prohibit public use of fighting words is too broad. Those words may sometimes be used in situations where there is no danger."

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Source : Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.64, Harvard University Press

Ithiel de Sola Pool

#Fighting Quotes #Power Quotes #Police Quotes

“France and Italy have not yet signed this treaty or agreed to naval limitation as between those nations, but I have confidence that in time they will do so.”
“I'm a black woman every day, and I'm not confused about that. I'm not worried about that. I don't need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don't feel disempowered as a black woman.”

Source : "Network TV Is Broken. So How Does Shonda Rhimes Keep Making Hits?" by Willa Paskin, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.
“Live the Dream, Dream the Fish”

Source : Written on reverse of Dreamfish CD, 1993.
“I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.”
“If you're wealthy like Donald Trump is, and you have a preacher who says your wealth is a sign God approves of you, you're probably going to like that preacher. And if there is one major element in Donald Trump's religious beliefs, it would be this prosperity gospel.”
“It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.”

Source : 1967 Science is Not Enough.
“In the best of relationships you have two people who cannot think of anything that was not part of the deal.”
“Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you're better just doing something that makes you happy now.”

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