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Censorship Quotes
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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends. (Quote by - Jeremy Bentham)
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. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)
He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own. (Quote by - Elias Lyman Maggon)
I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards. (Quote by - William E. Borah)
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvetius)
There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance. (Quote by - Goethe)
The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not official, heavy- handed or conspiratorial, but woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed. (Quote by - William Blum)
No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Although the government claims the censorship law is necessary to protect minors, it has not even used all of the tools currently available to protect them from sexually explicit content. (Quote by - Ann Beeson)
You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! -of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me. (Quote by - Larry Flynt)
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. (Quote by - Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764)
Dealing with censorship has become our art how to say something with certain rules. (Quote by - Rafi Pitts)
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant'. (Quote by - Robert Anson Heinlein)
I do think it's a larger censorship problem. Here we have to battle just to be in locations. We've been banned from several of the businesses in town. (Quote by - Paul Blake)