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Censorship Quotes
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing. (Quote by - Michael Berryman)
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. (Quote by - Potter Stewart)
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. (Quote by - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis)
REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
The DMCA set up a system where, essentially, the government outsourced censorship of science. (Quote by - Cindy Cohn)
Censorship in China is nothing new, but the growing co- operation of U.S. technology companies in China's repressive policies is. (Quote by - Ann Cooper)
To say, 'don't have it', that's censorship. That's what is being done. That is what is being said by the control board letter and by the sheriff. (Quote by - Allen Lichtenstein)
We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people. (Quote by - Glenn Miller)
I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts. (Quote by - James Robinson)
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. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
The influence of these huge and powerful corporations on the media leads to a pernicious kind of censorship. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that many of these corporations own and control the media. In 1996 the Seagram Company ran a whiskey ad on an NBC affiliate in Texas, thus breaking the decades- old tradition of liquor ads not being carried on television. Although network television is leery of running liquor ads for fear of offending their beer advertisers, Advertising Age reported that Seagram might have a winning card to play, .. If Seagram came to us with a hard- liquor ad, we'd have to look at it. (Quote by - Cartoon Network)
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job. (Quote by - John Berry)
God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)