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 CommagerTag: censorship freedom-of-speech banned-books intellectual-freedom
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Salman RushdieTag: censorship free-speech banned-books intellectual-freedom
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Tag: libraries books liberty censorship freedom-of-thought banned-books bill-of-rights
A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.
Tag: books censorship ideas banned-books intellectual-freedom banned-books-week freedom-to-read
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
Anaïs NinTag: fear freedom evil literature censorship hypocrisy perversion banned-books intellectual-freedom puritanism sterility
Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.
Germaine GreerTag: literary-criticism dh-lawrence banned-books 1918 battle-of-the-lys-1918 lady-chatterley-s-lover
Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.
Judy BlumeTag: inspirational banned-books judy-blume
You have to be mad in the language you're mad in.
Chris CrutcherTag: censorship profanity banned-books
Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
Laurie Halse AndersonTag: books censorship ideas banned-books intellectual-freedom banned-books-week freedom-to-read
I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it, Bruno, but that does not mean I am confused about where truth lies.
S.J. ParrisTag: banned-books heresy
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