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It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

Tony Hancock

Tag: books censorship hancock

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Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present.

Michel Foucault

Tag: history philosophy sex censorship foucault the-history-of-sexuality

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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."

[Beauharnais v.Illinois, 342 U.S. 250, 287 (1952) (dissenting)]

William O. Douglas

Tag: liberty censorship free-speech freedom-of-speech political orthodoxy

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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.

Ellen Hopkins

Tag: books censorship ideas banned-books intellectual-freedom banned-books-week freedom-to-read

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Only the nonreader fears books.

Richard Peck

Tag: reading books censorship

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Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that.