Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

Goldwin Smith

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

William Wilberforce

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

Rob Bell

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

Vernon A. Walters

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.

William Gurnall

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

William Arthur Ward

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

Winston Churchill

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

Samuel Johnson

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Kurt Opsahl

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

Woody Allen

We live in far too permissive a society. Never before has pornography been this rampant. And those films are so badly lit!

Najam Sethi

People who question some of the facts of the Holocaust are ostracized; most publishers are so sensitive they won't even get into the argument. A degree of censorship is imposed that is not articulated in this case.

John Pilger

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

Ann Cooper

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by your government's harassment and censorship of journalists,

Cindy Cohn

The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science,

John Palfrey

It's related to the problems that Yahoo and Microsoft and others are facing in China, ... but here the issue is that these technology security companies are directly profiting from the censorship regime itself.

Clive Barker

It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in their metaphysical, sexual and violent imagery as the stories. But with the way censorship is at present, there's no way you can do that.

John Carpenter

There was no real censorship involved, which is a tantalizing draw,

Paul Dee

He's always talking about all the members of the NFL that had played at the U.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Warren Cuccurullo

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.