The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .
Lemony SnicketTags: censorship book-burning
There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy.
Margaret AtwoodTags: literacy censorship
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John MiltonTags: books censorship ideas intellect
I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
Peggy NoonanTags: self-control censorship free-speech
So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
Kathy GriffinTags: censorship language speech etiquette regret
As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
John ChristopherTags: censorship
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.
Claude Adrien HelvétiusTags: books censorship press
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
Geraldine BrooksTags: books censorship book-burning
The delay in the application of the policy to books has several explanations. For one thing, Blackshirts were not, nor have they yet become, bookworms; and the intellectual bread of Mussolini himself is made, usually, of clippings. They did not care too much about things which they could not hate since they usually did not know them....
Giuseppe BorgeseTags: censorship fascism mussolini italy
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
A.J. LieblingTags: writing censorship speech opinion constitution freedom-of-expression press
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