To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
Michel de MontaigneTags: censorship
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John MorleyTags: censorship
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Eugene O'NeillTags: books censorship
All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.
Katherine PatersonTags: reading books censorship
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Laurence J. PeterTags: reading books censorship
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.
Salman RushdieTags: freedom censorship
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman RushdieTags: censorship free-speech banned-books intellectual-freedom
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."
[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)]
Tags: reading books censorship
All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard ShawTags: progress censorship free-speech
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]
Tags: politics dissent censorship freedom-of-speech opposition repression
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