Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.

Heinrich Heine

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To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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The sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be....Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.

Granville Hicks

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Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

Holbrook Jackson

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Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?

Joseph Henry Jackson

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Civil government cannot let any group ride roughshod over others simply because their consciences tell them to do so.

Robert H. Jackson

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Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.

Peter S. Jennison

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?

Juvenal

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Clare Boothe Luce

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Golda Meir

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