William O. Douglas Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Life: October 16, 1898 - January 19, 1980
Birthday: October 16
Death: January 19
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.
source: "Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 24, 1957. 
topic: Winning, Expression, Community, Capricious, Freedom Of Expression, Philistines, Free Expression, Freedom Of Speech And Expression, Lustful
