What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.
Jacques DerridaTags: truth writing censorship language speech
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
[Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, February 26, 1962]
Tags: democracy america censorship freedom-of-thought marketplace-of-ideas media news openness secrecy truthfulness values
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...
Dwight D. EisenhowerTags: libraries reading books freedom censorship thought
manuscripts don't burn" - "(рукописи не горят)
Mikhail BulgakovTags: censorship
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing freedom censorship writers-block
[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
Judy BlumeTags: books censorship
Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: censorship
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph BrodskyTags: reading books censorship illiteracy
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.
Henry Steele CommagerTags: censorship freedom-of-speech banned-books intellectual-freedom
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Benjamin FranklinTags: reading books censorship
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