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.
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The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.William Douglas
Every time you pick up the newspaper you read about one company merging with another company. Of course, we have laws to protect competition in the United States, but one can't help thinking that, if the trend continues the whole country will soon be merged into one large company.
William 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 Douglas
Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.
William Douglas
The idea of using censors to bar thoughts of sex is dangerous. A person without sex thoughts is abnormal.
William Douglas
I've often thought that if our zoning boards could be put in charge of botanists, of zoologists and geologists, and people who know about the earth, we would have much more wisdom in such planning than we have when we leave it to the engineers.
William Douglas
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