William Orville Douglas Quotes

Why cannot we work at cooperative schemes and search for the common ground binding all mankind together? - William Orville Douglas

We who have the final word can speak softly or angrily. We can seek to challenge and annoy, as we need not stay docile and quiet. - William Orville Douglas

We look to the heavens for help and uplift, but it is to the earth we are chained; it is from the earth that we must find our sustenance; it is on the earth that we must find solutions to the problems that promise to destroy all life here. - William Orville Douglas

We know by now that if we make technology the predestined force in our lives, man will walk to the measure of its demands. We know how leveling that influence can be, how easy it is to computerize man and make him a servile thing in a vast industrial complex. . . . This means we must subject the machine -- technology -- to control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. - William Orville Douglas

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. - William Orville Douglas

We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, older than our school system. - William Orville Douglas

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. - William Orville Douglas

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